I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines. — Tana French 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
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
My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me. — Paul S. Kemp 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
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
An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
How do we know, then, when a code's been cracked?when we are right?when do we know if we have even received a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in… — Truman Capote 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
Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what… — Akiva Goldsman 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
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 word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to write a book is to use the Table of Contents as an outline. People get stuck when they… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I was fuzzy on the details, but I knew the basic outline. I knew how I wanted to be, it was simply… — Megan Crane 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
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
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 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
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 write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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