Character Quote by Louis L'Amour

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi

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

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

— Stephen King

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

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

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

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

— David Byrne

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

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

— Brian K. Vaughan