Top 1200 Contemporary Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout tracks on their own.

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been.

Edgar Meyer's violin concerto was the first piece of contemporary music I worked on in any depth. I was 18 or 19.

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.

I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

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

There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear friends of mine.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

For me, fiction belongs to my inner being, is something essential which defines me - I am a fiction writer in the same way I am a woman, the same way I am dark-haired - it is something essential and structural. It's like an exogenous skeleton that keeps me going. And I don't know how I would manage to live without writing, working with words.

I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.