Hidden Themes Quotes

I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the obvious cuteness.

What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.