I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
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.
One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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!
I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
I don't write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.