Contemporary Quotes - Page 3

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.