Author Intuition Quotes

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

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.

Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design.