Anything Quote by George Stephen

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

— Don DeLillo

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 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

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

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

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each…

— Emily Giffin

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

— Larry Hagman

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