English teacher Quote by Charles Benoit

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,

— Andrew Stanton

In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his mouth was…

— Sam Abell

“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as…

— Andrea A. Lunsford

“Everyone should be allowed to play with ideas, to tumble them about, to discuss them and distil them, until they have fixed upon the…

— Iain King

“Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.’ (John Cage)”

— David Sheppard

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is…

— Lawren Harris

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a…

— Isabel Allende

“For me, not knowing your theme until your finished is like using a scalpel to turn a kangaroo into Miss Universe – there will…

— David G. Allen

“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction…

— Mark Twain

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

— Diane Setterfield

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are…

— Sara Zarr

“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.”

— Henry James