Contemporary Quotes - Page 2

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

I read very little contemporary anything.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

The poet is always our contemporary.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.