Anna Todd Quotes

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.'

You can't sit down and decide what you want to write about.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

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

It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that feels fun and fresh to me tends to happen fairly unthinkingly.

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 I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.

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

Sometimes you don't really know what you're going to write about. I mean, there's times where you get into a writing room and it's a complete flop. And then there's times where you get to a writing room and you're like, 'Oh, I'm just on a roll.'

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

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.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I prefer writing originals.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

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.