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

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

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

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

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

Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

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.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.