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

— Stephen King

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

“How do you know where a story begins?”

— Carolee Dean

“What's the next story in which you are going to put me in?”

— Deyth Banger

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that…

— Louis L'Amour

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only…

— Lois Lowry

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of…

— Alan Moore

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

— Curtis Hanson

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

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

Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should…

— Gene Wolfe