Camus Quote by John Leonard

It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.

— Steve Coogan

“I decided to write this piece because my internal critic told me to write it. At least I think he told me to write…

— Jarod Kintz

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

“I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do…

— Stephanie Perkins

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

— Robert Hewison

“If I could, I'd take the food and art of Italy, for example, couple it with the quiet, understated personality of France and the…

— Tsh Oxenreider

“Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the great novels…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“there is a French version of the story, and a true one.”

— Stephen Clarke

“The problem with modernism is that we actually believe, naively and arrogantly, that we can in some way hold any concept and grasp it…

— Tobin Wilson

I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something…

— Luca Guadagnino

“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again…

— Peter Watson