I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster. — William Landay Copy Share Image
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement,… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
“Create time for yourself... There are 24 hours in a day... Outline the number to spend on your dreams every day!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline… — Colley Cibber Copy Share Image
I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make.… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
