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

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I'm writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.