Theme Quotes

They say great themes make great novels

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.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Small minds can never handle great themes.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic'.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.

I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.

There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

That is the theme of the Million Mom March: 'I don't need a brain - I've got a womb'.

My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

I think the universal theme would be love and relationships and how if you really want to live and be alive that that's proven through the amount of love you give and receive.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

At least Manhattan, in terms of danger and eccentricity, is much more of a theme park now. You couldn't really shoot the old Law & Order in New York today. It's a different city.

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

Anytime I am spending time with my son. We went to a theme party recently and it was Toy Story. He was Buzz Lightyear, I was Woody and his mom dressed like Woody's wife.

I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original movie, which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that.

Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.