Christopher Buckley Quotes

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

My writing process isn't a very organized thing.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

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 never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

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

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

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

I used to do three or four songs a day, just write them - boom, boom, boom, and done - because of how spontaneous I was.

I'm often just writing just to write. I'm not writing with...If I write, like, sitting down with a goal in mind, it's always, like, the worst. It turns into a ska song even if I'm trying to write like a horror movie sound track or something.

I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'

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

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 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.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.