Discover Quote by Gautham Menon

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense,…

— Zack Snyder

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

— Nathan Englander

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you…

— Carol Anshaw

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

— Lawrence Wright

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Mitski

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

— John McGahern

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

Writing a novel is always complicated, it's not like you snap your fingers and go, 'Ah, I know what I'll write'. For me, a…

— Reif Larsen