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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
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.
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.