Outlines Quotes

65 quotes by 63 authors

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
As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had… — Jhonen Vasquez
I'm a great believer in outlines. — Tom Wolfe
Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the… — Margaret Atwood
A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented… — Gertrude Stein
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. — Stephen King
In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to… — Chuck Palahniuk
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at… — David Foster Wallace
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… — William Gibson
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but… — Milan Kundera
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow… — Margaret Mitchell
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. — Wallace Stegner
Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious… — Mira Grant
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. — Garth Nix
Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down… — Patrick Ness
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give… — Louis L'Amour
None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are… — James E. Faust
Mattia was right: the days had slipped over her skin like a solvent, one after the other, each removing a very thin layer of pigment… — Paolo Giordano
To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways… — Jacob Burckhardt
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far… — Mark Twain

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