#subject matter

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cold #editors #expected #get #had

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#get #i #i think #into #matter

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. ↗

— Chester Brown

#because #despite #doing #done #enjoyed

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling. ↗

— Mark Millar

#colours #complex #dark #deceptively #i

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#matter #more #much #photographer #subject

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. ↗

— Quintilian

#contemplation #exercised #matter #mind #moulded

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book. ↗

— James Franco

#admire #aspect #book #filmmaker #greatly

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways. ↗

— Richard King

#matter #more #offers #opportunity #present

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#being #conscious #development #history #matter