About Quote by Amor Towles

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin…

— Mercedes Lackey

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening…

— John Scalzi

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what…

— James Patterson

I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after…

— John Grisham

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much…

— Elmore Leonard

I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the…

— George R. R. Martin

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot…

— Karen Robards

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me,…

— Joyce Maynard

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that,…

— Neil Gaiman

I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

— Patricia MacLachlan

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

— Ann Patchett