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

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 a very good writer. I'm working at it.

I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about.

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

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.

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.

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.