Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news. — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Well that’s open to debate,’ he said. 'It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, and I hate the thought of… — Aurelia B. Rowl Copy Share Image
This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Prior to her reading of the poem, light tears washed over him. He seemed to be leaking out moments that were, as… — U.L. Harper Copy Share Image
Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“I think you still love me,’ he says, ‘even though you don’t want to.’ I glare at him, fury battling my instincts.… — Mila Gray Copy Share Image
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader… — Walter Wangerin Copy Share Image
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
