Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.
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.
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.
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
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.
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
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.
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
I don't consciously go out looking for themes. They attach themselves to me.
Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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