I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I remember on 'Dr. Katz,' there was no script really at all. There were just scene outlines. — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings. — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one,… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Donald Trump refused to outline a health care plan. And they just kind of moved on, instead of pressing him on it.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture,… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the… — Jacques Rivette Copy Share Image
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline. — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline! — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
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