Character Quote by Chevy Stevens

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

An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to…

— John Grisham

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 make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know what they…

— Amor Towles

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 outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element…

— Khaled Hosseini

I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts,…

— Chevy Stevens

I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are…

— Michael Chabon

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

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