Feels Quote by James Frey

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

— Steve Erickson

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. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to…

— Taylor Sheridan

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 always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

— Ali Liebegott

I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

— Kevin Kwan

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes,…

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Patricia MacLachlan

I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually…

— Amanda Hocking

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ...…

— Joan Didion

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do…

— Per Petterson