Brainstorming Quote by Sara Shepard

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

— Sara Shepard

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'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are.…

— Ken Follett

Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and force myself…

— Sandra Brown

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

I don't really outline. I just kind of know where I'm going in my head, so I'll write and discover it for myself. Or…

— Sam Levinson

For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are…

— Milo Ventimiglia

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of…

— Thomas Perry

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the…

— Al Yankovic

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages…

— Anne Tyler