Books Quote by Hari Kunzru

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 never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a…

— Haruki Murakami

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

— Donna Leon

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't think I…

— Charles Forsman

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern

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'm always working on my next novel, even when I'm not.

— George Pelecanos

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

— Alastair Reynolds

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