Themes Quotes

236 Themes quotes by 216 unique authors

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost -… — David Wroblewski
I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is… — Lawrence Weschler
All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and… — Sebastian Faulks
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all… — Ron Eglash
There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility… — Sherwin B. Nuland
I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that… — Lois Lowry
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. — Mitchell Baker
These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in… — Cory Booker
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not… — Luke Evans
Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want… — Guy Gavriel Kay
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art… — Michel Onfray
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some… — Paul Di Filippo
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not… — Julien Green
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create… — Thomas Lynch
Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes… — Maurice Jarre
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ. — John Clayton
After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned… — Grazia Deledda
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. — Chuck Mangione
There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh,… — Mario Monicelli
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex.… — Melissa de la Cruz
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.… — Gerhard Richter
Themes around education and learning run through my work. — David Almond
I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was a little girl.… — Cassandra Wilson

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