Bits Quote by Lewis Thomas

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as…

— Aldous Huxley

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

— Josh Radnor

Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and…

— Pattiann Rogers

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

— David Byrne

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

— Sharon Cameron

I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with…

— Augusten Burroughs

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of…

— Alexander Chee

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started…

— Truman Capote

Sometimes I've made mistakes and not really listened to my instincts, and I've done a project, and I've been disappointed with the consequence, I…

— Alex Lawther

I think that sense of surprise, that you don't know where something is going, or what's going to happen, even as you write, that…

— Lynne Tillman

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward…

— Jens Lekman