Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, but some of the older ones it's hard for me to sit down with - when… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true. — William Golding Copy Share Image
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
