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I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

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

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

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

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.