Quotes About Theme In Literature

#1. During his reading hours, which were between one and five o'clock in the morning, but not every morning, he had come to the disconcerting conclusion that whistling was not an important theme in literature.

Julio Cortazar

#2. Who don't listen, feels.

Naomi Jackson

#3. Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.

Susan Jeffers

#4. When we have a clear idea of who we are and why we live, our lives become a journey. A story is created about our lives. And when the end comes, even if the story adds up to only one line, the story reaches a settled conclusion.

Ilchi Lee

#5. A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

Guenter Lewy

#6. The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

Ayn Rand

#7. The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!

Amish Tripathi

#8. One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.

Jay Leno

#9. Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on incest generally treats the theme of maternal absence tragically. Mens literature trivializes it or treats it comically. And clinical literature tends to treat it judgmentally.

Judith Lewis Herman

#10. There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.

Alistair Overeem

#11. To make this world a whole lot brighter,
when I grow up I'll be a writer.

Lee Bennett Hopkins

#12. Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

Damon Galgut

#13. It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

James Stockdale

#14. I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

Norman Granz

#15. 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.

Ayn Rand

#16. All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.

Reinaldo Arenas

#17. Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.

David Morrell

#18. When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.

Trey Parker

#19. A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated - as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.

Ayn Rand

#20. This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind ... just being herenow ... being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

Rajneesh

#21. From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#22. The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#23. Solange looked enthralled, manic. Deadly. So I did the only thing I could think of.
I threw a snowball at her head.

Alyxandra Harvey

#24. I can hear some of you groaning as you read this section. "Great," you're saying. "I have to put a theme in my book? Themes are only for that 'high literature' stuff that gets taught in universities, not for my nice, entertaining genre fiction.

Libbie Hawker

#25. I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real world, the one we all shared, to give plausibility to whatever they had made up.

Ian McEwan

#26. Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Oscar Wilde

#27. That is its sole law: everything has to submit to form. If any of literature's other elements are stronger than form, such as style, plot, theme, if any of these take control over form, the result is poor. That is why writers with a strong style often write poor books.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#28. Lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was

Michael Connelly

#29. I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

Zubin Mehta