Theme Quotes

698 quotes by 612 authors

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what… — Ernest Gaines
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and… — Anthony Burgess
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is… — Don DeLillo
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get… — Miriam Makeba
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are… — Mark Mothersbaugh
If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution -… — Rob Morrow
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of… — Marisha Pessl
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about… — Stephen King
The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after… — Swami Vivekananda
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story… — John Ortberg
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked… — Ian Rankin
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real… — Dave Van Ronk
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. — Steven Rattner
If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive. — Emanuel Steward
Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has… — Thomas G. Stemberg
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss. — Alexander McCall Smith
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I… — Eric Stoltz
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when… — George Saunders
We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the central theme in… — Rick Santorum

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