Contemporary Quote by Lion Feuchtwanger

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through…

— Per Petterson

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and…

— Lion Feuchtwanger

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

— William Landay

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when…

— Danielle Dutton

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures…

— Ben Lerner

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected romanticizing and…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“History gives us the facts, sort of, but from literary works we can learn what the past smelled like, sounded like, and felt like,…

— Scott Herring

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a…

— Saul David

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead…

— John Green

As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.

— Nathaniel Philbrick