Hari Kunzru Quotes

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

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

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

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

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 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.

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

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

I am not a consecutive writer.

I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

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

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.

I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres.

I usually know where I want to end up when I begin, but I have no idea how I'm going to get there... I don't write with an outline, and surprises happen on the way, and sometimes it changes.