Books Quote by Edan Lepucki

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation…

— Lois Lowry

I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main…

— David Means

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

“*The story,* I like to say and remember, *is always smarter than you* - there will be patterns of theme, image,e and idea that…

— Tin House Books

The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much…

— Lucy Corin

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here,…

— Hilary Mantel

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're…

— Bob Shacochis

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

My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can…

— George Saunders

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

— Chris Pavone

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of…

— Patrick Lussier

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