Character Quote by Hanya Yanagihara

“By the late 1950s millions of Americans were enjoying the bounties of affluence and the consumer culture, the likes of which they had scarcely…

— James T. Patterson

The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and…

— James Ellroy

“These were times when the sheer splendour of language and the boundless potential of the human imagination to transcend the inexorable, horrendous dullness of…

— M.J. Nicholls

The world loves the 1950s.

— Sara Sheridan

“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds…

— Sara Sheridan

“The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the…

— George Steiner

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than…

— Walter Kirn

“As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The fifties were pretty rebellious, a pretty rebellious period, around that time. And it was preceding the whole zoot suit thing which I think…

— Willie Herron

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

“Life was a strange mix of twists and turns, where incomprehensible loss often led to paths of unimaginable joy.”

— Mary Campisi

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

— Archibald MacLeish