Crescent Quote by Graham Joyce

I'm a great believer in outlines.

— Tom Wolfe

The contour eludes me.

— Paul Cezanne

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of…

— Gianfranco Ferre

My big challenge, I will say, is contouring. God help us all with contouring.

— Kristen Welker

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute…

— Robin Wasserman

All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and easier because…

— Diana Gabaldon

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

— Gerrit Noordzij

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around…

— Julianna Baggott

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this…

— Kenneth Clark

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

— Seth Grahame-Smith