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In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.
— Noah Hawley
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
— Rachel Kushner
Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
— Victoria Aveyard
For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.
— Tite Kubo
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
— George Orwell
They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
— John O'Hara
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
— Dani Shapiro
I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.
— William Styron
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
— Henry David Thoreau
I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
— Jamie Hewlett
I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.
— Mamoru Hosoda
The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.
— John Logan
I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.
— Jeff Lemire
I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.
— Guy Laliberte
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
— Mark Webber
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
— Don DeLillo
I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.
— Lorna Simpson
Happiness is never a guarantee and it always requires effort.
— Charity Bradford
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
— Ronnie James Dio
And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself. - The Sacred Echo
— Margaret Feinberg
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
— Claude Monet
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
— David Copperfield
--In his themes and techniques, Conrad was a liberator:he eloquently questioned what other people took for granted.
— Cedric Watts
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
— James Dyson
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
— Naguib Mahfouz
I am against great themes and great subjects ... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
— Jean Renoir
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
— Garet Garrett
I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.
— Jillian Medoff
These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
— Cory Booker
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
— Alex Winter
I think age is really changing how I write and the themes that I connect with. But there are also things I'm really intrigued about.
— Abi Morgan
I don't really set out to explore grand themes. I set out to tell a story. And one I have to be able to imagine right through.
— John Irving
His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Themes around education and learning run through my work.
— David Almond
I think the great thing about theatre, and if you start in theatre, is that it does build a confidence in poetic themes and ideas.
— Abi Morgan
Learning" and "Performance" are key fundamental themes of better organizational governance.
— Pearl Zhu
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
— Erykah Badu
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
— Dean Kamen
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
— Mel Gibson
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
— Tawni O'Dell
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and ... most people's books are just variations on certain themes.
— Christopher Isherwood
Whatever direction your life takes, your underlying themes remain. Discover and explore your themes to open the way for rich creative development.
— Nita Leland
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.
— Peter Dicken
I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.
— Sarah Brightman
I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.
— Mike Scheidt
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
— Dario Argento
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
— Bo Burnham
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
— Christopher Eccleston
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
I'm always thinking about the next record. I've got like 20 different themes and then I'll scratch the themes. It's a learning process.
— Jason Mraz
Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.
— John Pilger
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.
— Martin Scorsese
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense of humor, here and there.
— Francesca Gregorini
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.
— Ridley Scott
After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.
— Tim Zuck
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
— Harold E. Varmus
You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
— Miranda Hart
'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
— John Clayton
'Nowhere Man' embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. It's really near and dear to my heart.
— Ruth Glick
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 a wonderful launching-off place.
— Lawrence Weschler
I really love writing themes and melody.
— Trevor Rabin
Themes recur again and again in my work.
— Eve Arnold
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
— Dani Shapiro
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
— Chuck Mangione
He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.
— Stephen Chbosky
Let us remember that humanity's story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress.
— Brendon Burchard
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
— Clarence Day
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
— Bob McDonnell
Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.
— Dave Wolverton
I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.
— Joyce Tenneson