#themes

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #themes




I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.


Pam Houston


#story #themes #unexpected #writing #life

A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge, habits and attitudes. Each reader reads a different book. Each reader imagines a different story. A few years ago, for instance, a friend of my mother's sent me a copy of a test on Rite of Passage that she had given her students. The first question read: "True or False? The theme of Rite of Passage is..." I can't tell you what the presumed themed was, but I can tell you that I didn't recognize it. Beads of sweat leaped out of my forehead. After two more questions, I had to put the test aside. I didn't know the "right" answers.


Alexei Panshin


#literature #themes #attitude

[On Female Attraction to Men in Uniform] That male military persona feeds a subconscious, passive-aggressive female desire to dominate the warrior as he is perceived an iconic example of masculinity (particularly amongst traditionally warlike cultures). The damsel in distress theme always struck me as embodying this: the hapless, innocently beautiful woman unwittingly enraptures the heroic male so completely that he would risk all to submit to her at his own peril, and quite in spite of it.


Tiffany Madison


#literature #military-theory #passive-aggressive #romantic-themes #warrior

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.


Mitch Albom


#believe #best #biggest #focus #held

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.


Isabel Allende


#coming #death #end #freedom #haunt

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.


Dario Argento


#ago #back #exploring #fantasy #get

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


#her #his #i #imagination #learned

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


#coming #fiscal #fiscal responsibility #going #good

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.


Martin Scorsese


#corruption #crime #interesting #political #relevant

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.


Georges Simenon


#biggest #communication #complete #completely #fact