Begin Quote by Elmore Leonard

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel…

— Jonathan Trigell

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually…

— Robert B. Parker

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

— Sarah Dessen

I don't make that decision [what next book will be] until I've read enough to know that I've got something different to say and…

— John Shelby Spong

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what…

— Rita Mae Brown

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

— John Irving

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

— Rose Tremain

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

“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read…

— Jayne Ann Krentz