Outlining Quotes

Outlining Quote of the day

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.