Trope Quotes

“Excuse me, you taught trope in Theresienstadt?”

— Chaim Potok

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

— Justin Cartwright

The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

— Karin Slaughter

I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

— Rachel Brosnahan

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

— Mark Gatiss

“Do you mean to tell me, Superintendent, that this is one of those damned cases you get in detective stories where a…

— Agatha Christie

I'm drawn to the figure of the ungrateful subaltern as a trope in literature. In real life, it is often dangerous to…

— Jenny Zhang

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'…

— Philip Reeve

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an…

— Anne Waldman

“Hello, Mr. Trope, how may I help you?” says my older, completely sexually unattractive assistant, Penny.”

— Alexa Riley

I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they…

— Ronny Chieng

“There is something universally chilling about a new plot. And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a…

— Chang-rae Lee

I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to…

— Brian K. Vaughan

There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of…

— Jesse Andrews

In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In…

— Edward M. Lerner

One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal…

— Lisa Jewell

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a…

— Emma Donoghue

I'm a big fan of the trope of 'the poor boy meets the wealthy girl.' I like the idea of this boy…

— Marie Lu

“I very nearly titled this book Stop Murdering the Henchmen after this trope. If I could wave a magic wand and remove…

— Samantha Keel

“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and…

— Grant H. Kester

“JG: Ha! I will get him Looking for Alaska and tell him this idea that a human being is more than a…

— John Green

“Our heroes have arrived, then," the stranger said, his voice a soft, bubbly murmur. "Excuse me?" Poison queries. The odd creature put…

— Chris Wooding

“A song is not a tool for changing a human heart in the way that a wrench is a tool for changing…

— John Barnes

“expatriation, like love, is not only a condition that devastates and reconfigures the self; it is, like love, a trope, a figure…

— André Aciman

I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with…

— Elizabeth Wein

I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there…

— Anne Waldman

I try to stay away from tropes, or if there is a trope there, I ensure that it's cleverly written and isn't…

— Adam Pearson

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field…

— Trevor Paglen