#contemporary

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#art #bigger #contemporary #contemporary art #how

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#contemporary #hard #issues #makes #most

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. ↗

— David Simon

#actually #almost #best #contemporary #inclined

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.” Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat. Since when did covert operators have fans? ↗

— Tara Janzen

#funny #humour #romance #romantic-suspense #funny

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch. ↗

— George Stephen

#bunch #contemporary #disparate #even #horror

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#collins #contemporary #contemporary society #could #deal

I'd love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day. ↗

— Faith Sullivan

#new-adult-contemporary-romance #new-adult-fiction #new-adult-lit #new-adult-romance #faith

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining