Ends Quote by Violet Duke

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist…

— Pamela Clare

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

— Peter Temple

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to…

— Violet Duke

“I've always been a pantser when I write. Planning detail with what happens at every turn isn't me. I'm not a plotter. I like…

— Jul Winters

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when…

— Judy Blume

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

I write largely plot-driven stories.

— Ravi Subramanian

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

— Michael Connelly