“I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.” IfsGivingFirstsBookSometimesYoungConflictPagesAdultsOvercomingYoung AdultSentencesAppealsThemeHardshipFamily FriendsOvercoming Hardship Author:Regina Brett
“Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.” IfsWayNeedsFeelsCharacterStoriesFilmCertainPiecesTvsPeriodsConflictUniversalLoyaltyThemeRelevantEverlastingVacuumsUniversal Themes Author:J. J. Abrams
“Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.” ShouldWritingBelieveImportantStoriesTodayFallI BelieveChallengesFictionIssuesReaderConflictTraditionUniversalSouthRaisedNostalgiaSettingContemporarySettingsThemeRegionsSouthernRelevantTrapsBelievableDialectImportant Issues Author:Mary Alice Monroe
“I'm a long time [Scott] Fitzgerald fan, as probably everyone in America is. And I've always been fascinated by that theme of, what is the price of the American dream and what parts of your soul do you walk away with? The conflict of art versus commerce was also very interesting to me.” LongArtSoulDreamAmericaWalksInterestingFansConflictLong TimeYour SoulThemeFascinatedAmerican DreamCommerceVersusVery InterestingScott Fitzgerald Author:Matt Bomer
“Emerging into writership, I have plans to discover my other themes, of nation and country, love and conflict, the body and transcendence, mutilation and wholeness, starvation and wicked plenty, and more. That is, I am already thinking ahead to more writing.” ThinkingWritingCountryBodyNationsPlansConflictPlentyThemeWickedWholenessTranscendenceEmergingStarvationMutilationCountry LoveThinking Ahead Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.” PeopleMenTryingLittlesPersonsEnoughPlayBigsSeemsFormUsedMotherBitsCommonRolesCasesViolenceCallingConflictFindingsLittle BitDoctorsOrganizationVariousThemeVariationCaretakers Author:Barbara Crampton
“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.” HumansPoliticalHistoryConflictImportanceThemeSkepticismHuman HistorySubordinates Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.” MindHumansReligiousResultsViewsBrainCreativeOur LivesAtheismCreationIgnoranceDivineConflictUniqueConsciousEvidenceAspectAnd LoveAppearanceGuidanceThemeConsistentHuman MindScience And ReligionImaginativeDivine GuidanceReligious Views Author:John Eccles