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When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.

— Stephen King

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

— Elizabeth Berg

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the…

— Jazmine Sullivan

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all the way…

— Adrian Lester

Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I…

— Philip Roth

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

— Donna Leon

I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the…

— Laurie Foos

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never…

— Janet Fitch