Boring Quote by Bob Shacochis

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual…

— Daniel Handler

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and…

— Aristotle

I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let…

— Terry Brooks

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

— Rudolph Valentino

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one…

— Sue Monk Kidd

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in…

— Janet Evanovich

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

— Kathleen Turner

I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like…

— Crowder

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

A lot of people think that they are really cool because they don't outline. In my writing group, they would say, "I will never…

— Matt de la Pena

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute…

— Robin Wasserman