About Quote by Melissa Rosenberg

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

— R. L. Stine

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.

— Martha Grimes

I wrote Twilight at about the pace of a runaway semi on a steep down slope. It took me three months of super-obsessive behavior…

— Stephenie Meyer

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will…

— Elmore Leonard

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 never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

— Steve Erickson

I know very few writers who outline fully before they start. It just doesn't seem possible to do, because so many things don't come…

— Tom Perrotta

I never work from an outline, and often I dont 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

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do,…

— Ethan Suplee