Again Quote by Flannery O'Connor

...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I…

— Flannery O'Connor

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

— Elizabeth Berg

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new…

— Haruki Murakami

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

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

— May Sarton

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

— James M. Cain

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past,…

— Linda Colley

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

— Mitski

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's…

— Linda Sue Park

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

— Tom Wolfe