Ruby Rose Quotes

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

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.

As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised.

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

I don't really know how writing process happens, how these songs are arrived at. One of the things I like about the writing process is, I don't necessarily know where it's going, and even if I think I know where it's going, it'll turn out different. I find that exciting and rewarding.

I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong."

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

When you surprise yourself and you can't remember what the take felt like, then something transformative has happened.

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you are writing it. There is no formula. And, sometimes, you really have to work at it and hunker down.

It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

I didn't know what I was going to get. You never do, when you're filming something for real.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.