Quotes About Recurring Themes

#1. Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.

Sara Zarr

#2. Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

Sharon Shinn

#3. I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even we don't notice it until we've written three or four books.

Sara Zarr

#4. Let us remember that humanity's story has only two perennially recurring themes: struggle and progress.

Brendon Burchard

#5. We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

Sara Zarr

#6. I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

Tracy Chapman

#7. Most people go through life thinking God never speaks to them when in fact He's always speaking. To everyone. Always directing. Sometimes warning. Sometimes affirming. But we hear so little of what He says because our consciousness of His voice is obscured by our mental static.

Steven Furtick

#8. After all, he meant well. Foreigners never seem to understand how little attraction an island of damp fogs, cut off from civilization, and a provincial little court has for us Parisians, who inhabit the most cultivated, powerful monarchy in the world.

Judith Merkle Riley

#9. It's things like this that makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.

Scott Lynch

#10. The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

Eric Hoffer

#11. Bush, it will go down in history, it's unbelievable that guy was president. Unbelievable. I'm sure, I'm 100 percent sure, in one hundred years, in one thousand years if society's still standing, they're going to say, "That guy was president? Like, what?" I know that to be a fact. RORY

Chris Smith

#12. You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

Jean M. Auel

#13. Love is like a loaded musket," he mused. "And yet it's available to everyone. It's always . . ." He mimed thrusting out a gun. "'Here you are! Try not to kill yourself or others with it.' They oughtn't allow young people near it.

Julie Anne Long

#14. A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

Confucius

#15. 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

J.K. Rowling

#16. One's story isn't a skin to be shed - it's inescapable, one's body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that's at once your invention and the invention of you.

Philip Roth

#17. No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Dick Gregory

#18. The high note is not the only thing.

Placido Domingo

#19. An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes ... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

Tina Fey