Architecture Quote by Michael Ondaatje

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

— 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

I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that…

— Raymond Buckland

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in…

— Janet Evanovich

I'm a relatively disciplined writer who composes the whole book before beginning to execute and write it. Of course, you can't hold - you…

— Orhan Pamuk

One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking,…

— Philip Pullman

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

— Donna Leon

I'm one of the narrative-push people. I don't outline, I don't plan ahead. So I'm my first reader, telling myself the story as I'm…

— Donald E. Westlake

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening…

— John Scalzi

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield