Book Quote by John Lanchester

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

— Henry James

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

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

— Chris Pavone

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters,…

— Anne Rice

I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to…

— Helen Simonson

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about…

— Isabel Allende

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd

I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the historicals, however,…

— Joe R. Lansdale