Book Quote by Jeffery Deaver Download Open image “The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.” — Jeffery Deaver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Down and Easy Percent Writing
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 Copy Share Image
I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When I have a chapter finished, I jot down who the viewpoint characters are, what they are wearing, what happened in the chapter. So… — Dean Wesley Smith Copy Share Image
There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“I have tried to outline, but all that seems to guarantee is that the book will not much resemble the outline, so I long… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“I realized finally what the problem was,” I told Maree. “It wasn’t him. It was my wife. She was treating him like a normal… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.” — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Stanton clawed his way to the bedside table and managed to grab his knife. He jabbed it into Rhyme. Once, twice. But the only… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“You’re sure it was Loving?” “Yes. That’s exactly the kind of strategy he’d choose. There’s no doubt it was him.” I was aware of… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Maree opened her eyes wide. “Wait, wait . . . I know you.” She regarded me with a frown. I must have blinked in surprise. Had we… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“eager’ and ‘anxious’ aren’t the same, or how ‘disinterested’ doesn’t mean ‘uninterested.” — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“DuBois’s observations were back. She’d largely recovered from the Graham ignominy.” — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“Maree may have noted that I said “wife” and not “ex,” which imparted some information to her. She was smarter than the package suggested.… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image