Literary Generation Quotes

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the line, because they had all grown up with a love of literature.

There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.