Taylor Sheridan Quotes

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

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

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

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

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 have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

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.

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

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

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.