I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.
The problem with themes is that writers don't realise they are themes until someone points them out.
I feel that people really feel they've got a part of me when they listen to my albums and the themes just show themselves.
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
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.
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