Attention Quote by Anna Quindlen

In fiction 'issues' are accidental, sometimes incidental. The place and the people it creates are paramount.

— Tim Winton

One of the great things about fiction is you can use an issue and describe it in human terms.

— Michael Connelly

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I would love to focus on writing books that were not just about issues.

— Elizabeth May

I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present…

— Claudia Rankine

Science fiction stories reflect major issues that concern humanity.

— Liu Cixin

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

— Eleanor Catton

“Somedays you have to write even when you think you're putting out crap. You just need to tell yourself that you'll fix the problems…

— Christopher Rice

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are…

— John Grisham

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to…

— Jodi Picoult

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and…

— Arundhati Roy