Letter Quote by Flannery O'Connor

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that…

— Kurt Busiek

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,

— Andrew Stanton

If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.

— H. W. Brands

You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.

— Robert Wise

I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all…

— Ken Liu

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

— Max Lucado

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have…

— Dan Jenkins

Humans know when it's not a good story. Unless you do this for a living, you may not know exactly why you don't like…

— Aaron Sorkin

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

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

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

— Ernest Hemingway