Book Quote by Sara Gruen

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

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

— Hallie Ephron

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

— Carl Reiner

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

— Charles Stross

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

— Gavin Newsom

I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.

— John Grisham

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

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

— Jeffery Deaver

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

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you…

— Samuel West

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them.…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin