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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.

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 in the story as I'm going along.

When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.

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

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

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.