Contemporary Quote by David Foster Wallace

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

— Orson Bean

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century…

— John Irving

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties"…

— Lester Bangs

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration…

— James Shapiro

I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights.

— Sebastian Stan

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles…

— Mark Leyner

The '50s in general are written off as a boring decade following the turmoil of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath -…

— Lynne Reid Banks

Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really…

— Mark Kurlansky

When I was growing up in the eighties, there was a real nostalgic streak for the fifties. Look at 'Back to the Future.'

— Panos Cosmatos