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What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate…

— Sebastian Faulks

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to…

— Iain Banks

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

— John Lanchester

I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even we don't…

— Sara Zarr

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

I'm always writing across the same themes. But with short stories, I'm doing something different than with novels. In some ways, they're coming from…

— Lynn Coady

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

— Monica Ali

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley