Character Quote by Raymond Buckland

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

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

— L. Sprague de Camp

I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Haruki Murakami

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their…

— Neal Shusterman

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B)…

— Jim Shepard

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and…

— Michiel Huisman

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of…

— Alan Moore