Books Quote by James Herbert

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

— Haruki Murakami

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story…

— Michael Ondaatje

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

— Donna Leon

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

— Lawrence Block

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

— Peter Temple

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books…

— Jackie Collins

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less interesting it…

— Nick Petrie

I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't think I…

— Charles Forsman

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a…

— Tracy Letts