Come Quote by James Gray

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of…

— Scott Turow

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and force myself…

— Sandra Brown

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into…

— China Mieville

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a…

— Ray Bradbury

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they…

— Isak Dinesen

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 keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

— John Waters