Goal Quote by Brandon Sanderson

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

— Sefi Atta

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

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

— Patricia MacLachlan

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the…

— Tom Robbins

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

— Rose Tremain

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

— Garth Nix

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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 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 don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it…

— John Barth

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'm a great believer in outlines.

— Tom Wolfe