Book Quote by Eve Bunting

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've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you…

— Chris Van Allsburg

When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or producers and…

— Ramin Djawadi

They say great themes make great novels

— John O'Hara

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The theme is the most essential component of a new series and I spend a lot of time developing it.

— Bear McCreary

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

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

— Satyajit Ray

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

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or,…

— Rebecca Serle

A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But…

— Robert Cormier

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