“I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens – you know, until it finds its own plot – because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.”

—  Nelson Algren

"The Art of Fiction No. 11" (1955)

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American novelist, short story writer 1909–1981

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