Postmodern Fiction Quotes

#1. I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Noah Baumbach

#2. The overriding sense of Tokyo ... is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern science-fiction story set ten minutes in the future.

David Rakoff

#3. The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

Alison Assiter

#4. The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

Kate Atkinson

#5. I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people.

Sofia Milos

#6. Reagan's easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.

Michael Rogin

#7. One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

Richelle Mead

#8. I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

Aleksandar Hemon

#9. ...Take the leap, they said. Live the billionaire's myth of immortality. And why not now, I thought. What else was there for Ross to acquire? Give the futurists their blood money and they will make it possible for you to live forever.
The pod would be his final shrine of entitlement.

Don DeLillo

#10. Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

Marjane Satrapi

#11. Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

D. Harlan Wilson

#12. I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Kathy Acker

#13. When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.

Chad Pennington

#14. Everything is mostly nothing.

Lynn Demarest