Case Quote by Joe Lycett

As long as there's a strong theme that I can identify with, that's what makes me interested in writing.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I mean, I think everything I do kinda follows a theme. I only write about a couple of things like some sort of social…

— Everlast

When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message.

— Ransom Riggs

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

— John Lennon

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

— Lena Dunham

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til…

— R. B. Kitaj

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to…

— Iain Banks

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

— Prunella Scales

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

— Otis Blackwell

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

— Willa Cather

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.

— Brett Dennen