Outlining Quotes

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

Act, Fall, Victim

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

Writing, Write, Talking

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
Harlan Coben

Writing, Ideas, Coming

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
Jeffery Deaver

Book, Spend, Months

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

Single, Before, Write

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
George Stephen

Work, Time, Writing

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

Book, Sometimes, Books

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