To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Something refused to come into focus in my thinking. Indistinctly, as though in a fog, shapes moved toward me and retreated just… — Jon Woodson Copy Share Image
I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in… — George Crumb Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting… — Robert Dugoni Copy Share Image
I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
“I shrugged uncomfortably, leaning my head against hers, almost forgetting Mr. Gardner’s presence as Mo and I fell into that sort of… — Amelia C. Gormley Copy Share Image
“It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.” — Christie Cote Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“I lost my freedom for so many years. Until he entered my cage. Him, with the black eyes and blacker soul.” — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
