I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
Ann PatchettSometimes not having any idea where weโre going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
Ann PatchettI tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
Ann Patchett