Plans Quote by Haruki Murakami

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 don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

— Michael Ondaatje

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a…

— Tracy Letts

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

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

— Sam Levinson

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 never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

— Haruki Murakami

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 think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking,…

— Philip Pullman

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like…

— Jonathan Lethem