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Outline Quotes

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 surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The girl traced the outline of her lover’s shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked Picture Quote #1

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed Picture Quote #1

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin’s so pale she looks like she’s just broken dawn Picture Quote #1

She felt like a fictional character who’d escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free Picture Quote #1

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You ask me what I’m looking for, and I outline you. you don’t recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope Picture Quote #1

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque Picture Quote #1

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can’t identify the victim Picture Quote #1

I don’t plot the books out ahead of time, I don’t plan them. I don’t begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don’t work with an outline and I don’t work in a straight line Picture Quote #1

I don’t take notes; I don’t outline, I don’t do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can’t sell it as caviar Picture Quote #1

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail Picture Quote #1

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd Picture Quote #1

In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing Picture Quote #1

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is Picture Quote #1

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis Picture Quote #1

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change Picture Quote #1

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn’t outline much. I had a vague idea of the story Picture Quote #1

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Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow Picture Quote #1

A deep red glow flushed the fronts of marble palaces piled up on the slope of an arid mountain whose barren ridge traced high on the darkening sky a ghostly and glimmering outline Picture Quote #1

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write Picture Quote #1

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book Picture Quote #1

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now Picture Quote #1

I don’t write with an outline. I don’t often know what I’m going to do as I’m writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct Picture Quote #1

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This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do Picture Quote #1

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life Picture Quote #1

I never outline. I don’t work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don’t know how it’s going to end Picture Quote #1

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There’s nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you’ve painted yourself in a plot corner Picture Quote #1

Let me trace your every outline, paint a picture on your skin, and kiss you with my lips. It’ll be pure bliss Picture Quote #1

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information Picture Quote #1

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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 surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way (Outline Quotes) 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 (Outline Quotes) The girl traced the outline of her lover’s shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked (Outline Quotes) When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed (Outline Quotes) She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin’s so pale she looks like she’s just broken dawn (Outline Quotes) She felt like a fictional character who’d escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free (Outline Quotes) You ask me what I’m looking for, and I outline you. you don’t recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope (Outline Quotes) All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque (Outline Quotes) There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can’t identify the victim (Outline Quotes) I don’t plot the books out ahead of time, I don’t plan them. I don’t begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don’t work with an outline and I don’t work in a straight line (Outline Quotes) I don’t take notes; I don’t outline, I don’t do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can’t sell it as caviar (Outline Quotes) As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail (Outline Quotes) At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd (Outline Quotes) In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing (Outline Quotes) If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is (Outline Quotes) The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis (Outline Quotes) It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change (Outline Quotes) For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn’t outline much. I had a vague idea of the story (Outline Quotes) Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow (Outline Quotes) A deep red glow flushed the fronts of marble palaces piled up on the slope of an arid mountain whose barren ridge traced high on the darkening sky a ghostly and glimmering outline (Outline Quotes) I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write (Outline Quotes) Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book (Outline Quotes) I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now (Outline Quotes) I don’t write with an outline. I don’t often know what I’m going to do as I’m writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct (Outline Quotes) This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do (Outline Quotes) You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life (Outline Quotes) I never outline. I don’t work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don’t know how it’s going to end (Outline Quotes) When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There’s nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you’ve painted yourself in a plot corner (Outline Quotes) Let me trace your every outline, paint a picture on your skin, and kiss you with my lips. It’ll be pure bliss (Outline Quotes) The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information (Outline Quotes)

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