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 remember on 'Dr. Katz,' there was no script really at all. There were just scene outlines. — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image
Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a… — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh 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
Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce… — Ishmael Reed 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
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
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
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga 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
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it.… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
A commission and an original are two different things, and both have their virtues and vices. A commission is a bit more… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
