World Quote by Tom Perrotta

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 one of the narrative-push people. I don't outline, I don't plan ahead. So I'm my first reader, telling myself the story as I'm…

— Donald E. Westlake

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

— Patricia MacLachlan

We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene…

— Ethan Coen

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 never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each…

— Emily Giffin

I never work from an outline, and often I don't 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

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised…

— Barry Schwartz

I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand.…

— Rick Riordan

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

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

— Steve Erickson