"I don’t know anything about my story when I start. I just grope along without the faintest idea..."

“I don’t know anything about my story when I start. I just grope along without the faintest idea about where I’m going or what the story is going to be about. … If I figure it all out ahead of time, I don’t feel like telling it anymore.”

- Michael Chabon adds to the collected wisdom of great writers at the 2013 New Yorker Festival, speaking to John Keats’s notion of “negative capability” and the role of uncertainty in creativity. (via explore-blog)