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
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
All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of… — Aristotle 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
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 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
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity,… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from… — Julie Taymor 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
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
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
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The… — George Orwell 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
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
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or… — Hope Edelman 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
