Important Quote by Brandon Sanderson

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 never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene…

— Piers Anthony

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the…

— Jeff Abbott

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel…

— James Frey

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 always work from an outline.

— Sarah Mlynowski

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

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will…

— Elmore Leonard

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

— Paul S. Kemp

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

— Patricia MacLachlan

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to,…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

— Jeff Garlin