Ahead of time Quote by Heidi Julavits

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it…

— Heidi Julavits

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out…

— Erin Morgenstern

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the…

— Elizabeth George

I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best…

— Karl Iagnemma

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

— Nelson Algren

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I feel like I know how to write plot.

— Mike White

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

— David Mamet

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown