Ruskin Bond Quotes

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

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

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.

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

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 keep my options open about my next story, there will always be those vague discussions at home.

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.

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.

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 never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.

It's been a while since I've written a novel aimed at the adult market, but I never sit down and say to myself, 'Okay, now I'm going to write something for us old folks.' I get gripped by an idea, and I go where the idea takes me.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

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

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out, and I'm just writing it down.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.

Writers divide fairly cleanly into those who only work through what they hear and those who are more visual. I am the latter, where I lie down on my office floor and play scenes through my head to - cinematically, several times with different elements - to see what works. I can't write a scene until I can see it.

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.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

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