Bad Quote by Sara Zarr

I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

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

— Chris Pavone

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

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the…

— Susan Choi

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain…

— J. K. Rowling

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

— Alex Winter

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And…

— Richard Russo

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes…

— Nan Goldin

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing…

— Jess Walter

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

— Bear McCreary

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

— Jonathan Evison