I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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.
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.
In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
