Tracy Chapman Quotes

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

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

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

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

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.

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.

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

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

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 am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

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

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'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

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

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

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.

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.

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.

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.