Modern Writing Quotes
- Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
- As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying… — Boris Pasternak
- I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. — Michael Palin
- The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama