S. S. Rajamouli Quotes

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

I'm always writing. There is always a story brewing in my head.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film strip running in my head. I guess that is also a reason why my books have such a visual element to them. And it's what I tell young writers: plan your story ahead.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.

Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and force myself to write and to keep writing. Sometimes it becomes a book.

If somebody says that they want to write a book but do not know what to write about, they will never write a book.

I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.

I'll usually see a scene in my head, playing like a movie trailer. After I've written that scene, everything takes off from there.

I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.