“It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.” PeopleHappensThreeSpaceNovelVisualsVagueVisual Images Author:Don DeLillo
“Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more vague sense of where things may wind up, but at some point, if the novel is any good at all, the story and characters take on lives of their own and take over the book, and the writer has to be open to that.” IfsMayBookCharacterStoriesStrongNovelWindVague Author:Steve Erickson
“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).” WorldWantWritingMomentsMightProcessNovelStreetsChangedWallIndustryPopsNarrativeVagueWriting ProcessHarvardPop MusicMusic Industry Author:Teddy Wayne