Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or fiction:
“It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)