Effort Quote by Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or…

— Brian Selznick

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

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political…

— Isabel Allende

I hope that my story can help inspire others who are at a decisive crossroads in their lives.

— Gianluca Vialli

I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

— Henry David Thoreau

One the reasons I talk about my story is I want other people who are in the circumstances I was in to understand they…

— Angela Rayner

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

— Tom Johnson

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

— Michael Ondaatje

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

— Caroline B. Cooney

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings,…

— Michael Morpurgo

Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.

— Alfonso Cuaron