Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see… — Helenio Herrera Copy Share Image
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
So I made an outline. Well, you know, days are going by, and I am not writing anything because this thing is… — Steve Tesich Copy Share Image
I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that,… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three… — Zak Penn Copy Share Image
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season. A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley. It's warm as long… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image