American Quote by Kate Atkinson

I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think…

— Dave Eggers

It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

— Lev Grossman

“Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.”

— Heath White

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

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it…

— Daniel Suarez

Postmodernism cost literature its audience.

— Scott Turow

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was…

— Harry Frankfurt

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

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Bell Hooks