Outline Quote by Tom Perrotta

I think it's dangerous to think you know what you're writing. I usually don't know, and usually I just discover it in the course…

— Jay McInerney

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

— Jay McInerney

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

— Gail Honeyman

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

— Rita Dove

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter…

— Marc Maron

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

— Dennis Potter

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.…

— Glenn Ficarra

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good…

— John Irving

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

— Anonymous