Outlining Quotes

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

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

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.

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