Agree Quote by China Mieville

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,…

— James Frey

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

This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and…

— Kameron Hurley

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot

I use a lot of narration; I have a very prosaic style. I like to get you invested in the character first and do…

— Scott Snyder

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of…

— David Milch

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning.

— John Grisham

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be…

— Ruth Ozeki

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt

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

— Chris Pavone