Believer Quote by Tom Wolfe

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

— George R. R. Martin

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that,…

— Neil Gaiman

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what…

— James Patterson

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

— Sefi Atta

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

“Outlines can help, but not if you begin with them. If you begin, instead, by writing down everything, by spewing out your ideas as…

— Howard S. Becker

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

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination.…

— Truman Capote

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

— Steve Erickson

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element…

— Khaled Hosseini

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

— Paul S. Kemp

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

— Jeff Garlin