Enough Quote by Truman Capote

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'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 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

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and…

— Ally Carter

I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.

— Kevin Kwan

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've always kept a notebook in my pocket, I've always written stuff down since I was a kid.

— Gord Downie

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 make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

— Morgan Saylor

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal…

— Walter Dean Myers

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to…

— Garrett Hedlund

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and…

— Charlaine Harris