Outlines Quotes

Outlines Quote of the day

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

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 most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

I'm a great believer in outlines.

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that.

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

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.

Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.

I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.

My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

I always work from an outline.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

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 blink against.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

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 to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

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 scene is supposed to accomplish.

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.