Theme Quotes

698 quotes by 612 authors

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;… — Vincent Van Gogh
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. — Herman Melville
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. — Philip Pullman
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when… — Diane Setterfield
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee… — Walt Whitman
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform… — Thomas Pynchon
There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. — John Lennon
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose… — Charlotte Bronte
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . .… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance… — J. G. Ballard
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostâ€”not an… — David Wroblewski
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a… — Gabrielle Zevin
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme — Jacqueline Carey
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:… — Roland Barthes
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by… — Boris Pasternak
She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed… — Stephen King
The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a… — Brennan Manning
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy. — Richard Yates
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by… — Leo Tolstoy

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