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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

It's so difficult to be conscious of a development of a style. You find yourself writing in a certain style, and the analysis of…

— Sally Rooney

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes,…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

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

Oddly enough, I suppose, I don't give much thought to my style, and I don't attempt to be consistent - except within a story.…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by…

— Donna Tartt

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

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

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

— Willa Cather

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

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