Although Quote by Cecelia Ahern

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

— James Herbert

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story…

— Michael Ondaatje

I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that…

— Raymond Buckland

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much…

— Elmore Leonard

Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going…

— Daniel Kehlmann

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but…

— Chris Chibnall

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

“I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any kind of…

— Charles de Lint

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

— Kazuo Ishiguro