Aaron Neville Quotes

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

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.

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 like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

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.

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

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.

When I'm writing, I'll just say random stuff that doesn't make sense, and then a certain word that I keep saying will stick out, and I'll write from there.

I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write, because that tends to be a little forced.

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

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.

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.'

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I'm writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I'll have a thought or I'll have a character's voice in my head, and that's when I know I'm on the right track.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

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.

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.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.