Able Quote by John Irving

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes,…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

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, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or…

— Brian Selznick

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I…

— Wes Anderson

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about…

— Alice Munro

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

— Lena Dunham

I like the idea of experimenting with all sorts of themes and just feeling free creatively.

— Benee

I've never had to search for themes. My films just come naturally out of my interest.

— James Ivory

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that…

— Kurt Busiek

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore…

— Brian De Palma