Outliner Quotes

#1. I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.

Jonathan Dee

#2. I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because I just didn't outline, and I had no path.

Sara Shepard

#3. I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

Liane Moriarty

#4. I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

Robin Wasserman

#5. Chinatown is tremendously interesting ... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

S.J. Rozan

#6. Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#7. I like liars.
Liars care enough to make the world
a more interesting place than it actually is.

Sarah Thyre

#8. Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.

Hal Duncan

#9. Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

Sam Yagan

#10. I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw ... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

D.J. MacHale

#11. Like gangsters yelling out roll call before they slaughtered a group of weeping traitors.

James Dashner