Attention Quote by Will Self

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan

The righting of historic wrongs has chimed with something fundamental in me since I was a young reader. I love the forensic skills, the…

— Fiona Barton

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery…

— Sarah Weinman

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

— Robert Hughes

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

— Mason Cooley

I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a novel? I…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Postmodernism’s collapse into indeterminacy is a significant weakness, yet its recognition of the implications of narratives, communities, embodiment, history, race, sex, and class make…

— David K. Naugle

“this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to…

— Charles Dickens

I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.

— David Grann

“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction, nonrealistic and…

— Leslie Fielder

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

— Will Self

Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of…

— Andrew Haigh