Quote by Howard S. Becker

I'm a great believer in outlines.

— Tom Wolfe

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

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

— George R. R. Martin

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised…

— Barry Schwartz

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

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

— Paul S. Kemp

I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to…

— James Salter

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

— Steve Erickson

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

— Sefi Atta

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.

— George Stephen

I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come…

— Cynthia Voigt

I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse feeling than…

— Michael Showalter