Also Quote by Joanna Trollope

Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going…

— Daniel Kehlmann

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I…

— Samantha Shannon

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the…

— Elizabeth George

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out…

— Erin Morgenstern

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

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

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the…

— Sophia Bush

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to…

— Terry Pratchett

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz