It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

A woman is subject matter enough.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

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

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.