Book Quote by Herman Koch

I've been approached a few times to write a book, but it's always a concept or a plan that I've not actually done myself.

— Gemma Atkinson

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually…

— Robert B. Parker

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a…

— John Gardner

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

— James Spader

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 don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with…

— Diana Gabaldon

I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to…

— Kate Atkinson

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin…

— Mercedes Lackey

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it…

— Nora Roberts

I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because…

— Dave Itzkoff