Top 1200 Contemporary Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction world, including games that are adapted from books (or vice versa: books that are adapted from games). It's wonderful to have the opportunity to play and see your favorite characters on the screen, but the opportunity to read a book does not become less attractive.

I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.

In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences.

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.

Contemporary anti-Semites claim they have nothing against Jews - they just hate the Jewish state.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

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

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

I feel very fortunate to have been a part of many successful contemporary horror franchises.

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't well received by my agent at the time, and it had been drilled into me that "memoir outsells fiction two to one" (not sure if that's true anymore, or if it ever was), so I felt like the only smart thing to do, professionally, was to keep mining my life for painful moments to recapitulate.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

The Pakistani writers are addressing change and what's happening today in the world. There is something completely contemporary in this writing.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

It always felt as though there was a wall between me and contemporary dance. I didn't know how to get into it.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

I modeled my work after contemporary masters of art house cinema but felt my voice was missing.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

One of the biggest problems of our contemporary civilization is that there's been an interruption of transmission. People have no past in their present.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.