Sam Levinson Quotes

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

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

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

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

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line - but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.

I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

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

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't.

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

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

I like to work spontaneously.

I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

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

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

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

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

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.