Contemporary American Literature Quotes

#1. I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

Jonathan Frakes

#2. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Michael N. Castle

#3. Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

Olivier Messiaen

#4. It's ok to not be ok, but it's not ok to stay that way.

Perry Noble

#5. Counterfeit tolerance includes the opportunism of one who seeks, or accepts, tolerance for himself, as a minority, but who would deny it to others if ever he should be in a position to grant it.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

#6. I feel like I'll have to peel back layers over layers, remove piece by piece of him, to get to know him.

J.C. Reed

#7. The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Andre Malraux

#8. The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?

L.M. Montgomery

#9. Life demands for change.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

#11. Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne

#12. There are no backwaters where things can breed - our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We've arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture.

William Gibson

#13. People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

Holly Near

#14. The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen.

Will Self

#15. I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I admire British literature for its insistence on dealing with social class. It may have been an influence.

Per Petterson