Fiction Quote by Brian Evenson

I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less interesting it…

— Nick Petrie

Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea what the…

— Vandana Singh

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about…

— Alice Munro

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

— Ruth Ozeki

Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and…

— Pattiann Rogers

Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my…

— Christopher Rice

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

— William Gibson

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

— Patricia Briggs

There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I…

— Alice Munro

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

About writing I learned that always, always, always it's necessary to haunt your settings. I'm a big researcher. All my fiction is based on…

— Lucy Jane Bledsoe

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's always with…

— Robert Cormier