Authority Quote by Jonathan Raban

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced…

— Kathy Acker

I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise…

— Grant Morrison

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

— Kathy Acker

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

— Robert Venturi

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism…

— Bell Hooks

“Postmodernism is not a theory or a creed: it is more like an attitude or a way of looking at things. It didn’t drop…

— Heath White

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

— Bell Hooks

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers to disregard…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

— Louis Menand

To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not one of…

— Steve Erickson