I'm With Him On This One

The Elegant Variation told us (well, me and everybody else who reads it) that Michael Frayn spoke to the Paris Review, and I find his sense of humor iresistible.

When I start I like to know in advance where the story is going, and I spend a lot of time thinking about the story before I begin writing it. Some writers claim that they start not knowing where the story is going to go. Muriel Spark says that she starts with nothing in her head except the title. This is very dramatic--and she has very good titles.