Top 1200 Contemporary Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

Mimi Fox is one of the most exciting contemporary jazz guitarists I've heard.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

For me, two of my favourite science fiction films are Blade Runner, which is fantastic, and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Both of those were smart science fiction films hitting more of a medium budget, and I desperately hope there is an audience for that kind of film because I would love that to be my next film, on that kind of scale.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I listen to jazz, Western classical, contemporary, Bollywood and heavy metal.

Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

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

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.

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

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

I don't think anybody does contemporary R&B albums better than me.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

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

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band.

All my films have raised questions on issues that are contemporary and relevant to our times.

It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

My mom did this really cool thing: when 'Pulp Fiction' came out on video, she made, like, a 'mommy edit.' She took two VCRs and dubbed 'Pulp Fiction' from one tape to the next and edited out all the parts she thought were unsuitable for a kid. It was basically, like, the opening and ending credits.

I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

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

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

Of course, it's always difficult to disentangle fact from fiction in relation to, e.g., the singularity project. Many scientists I know are dismissive of transhumanist claims, BUT the last 100 years has surely taught us never to underestimate the pace and scope of scientific progress. However, even if much of this turns out to be science-fiction, it also reveals a way of thinking about human life that I find deeply troubling.

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

Though the contemporary shows are good, I prefer sitcoms like my father's.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome. Fiction allows the author to explore different perspectives and add poignancy to the experiences of sensory sensitivity and being bullied and teased of someone who has Asperger’s syndrome. The title Delightfully Different describes Asperger’s syndrome but also the qualities of this novel.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive.

Ben Wheatley continues to be one of the most original voices in contemporary film.

Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.