Top Outlining Quotes
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
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
Jeffery Deaver
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Jeffery Deaver
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
E. L. Doctorow 
Jeffery Deaver 
George Stephen 
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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 
49% of people like this quote
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
Jeffery Deaver
48% of people like this quote
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
48% of people like this quote
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Jeffery Deaver
42% of people like this quote
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