Culture Quote by Anatole Broyard

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.

— Anatole Broyard

Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature…

— Wolfgang Pauli

“Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe…

— Christopher McDougall

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are…

— Robert Greene

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

— Anonymous

Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and…

— Jane Hirshfield

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

— Dan Harmon

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session…

— Ishmael Reed

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”

— Steven Spielberg

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all…

— Giles Foden

“For me, the last few years of the postmodern era have seemed a bit like the way you feel when you're in high school…

— David Foster Wallace

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the…

— Lee Klein