Outline Quotes

153 Outline quotes by 138 unique authors

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character. — Tim Howard
There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction,… — Justin Cronin
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats… — Leonardo da Vinci
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's… — Larry David
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. — Jeffery Deaver
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. — Jacques Derrida
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. — George Eliot
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to… — Ken Follett
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of… — Khaled Hosseini
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why… — Mike Huckabee
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about… — Jeff Koons
When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper,… — Lucy Larcom
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be… — Elmore Leonard
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. — Vince Lombardi
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part… — Joyce Maynard
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each… — James Patterson
For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind.… — Jodi Picoult
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter… — R L Stine
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. — R L Stine
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. — Robert Anton Wilson
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice… — Peter Kropotkin
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,… — Milan Kundera
It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing… — Gregory Galloway

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