Character Quote by Charles Stross

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

— J. K. Rowling

Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or…

— Carl Hiaasen

I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and…

— Ruskin Bond

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I…

— Meaghan Jette Martin

I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes help me…

— Christine Sneed

I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally…

— Janet Evanovich

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

— Jonathan Shapiro

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what…

— Miranda Cosgrove

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs,…

— Lucinda Williams

In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family trees. And…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

— Alan Furst

I always carry a notepad with me, even on vacation. If I'm on the computer when the story 'hits', I open a Word document…

— Franny Armstrong