Outline Quotes
Collection of top 83 famous quotes about Outline
Outline Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Outline quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.
— Helen Humphreys
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
— William Landay
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
— Mercedes Lackey
Structure doesn't make a story formulaic. The writer does.
— Peter Arpesella
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
— Rudolph Valentino
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
— Jeffery Deaver
To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
— Frederick Delius
Then she saw him in outline, standing in the doorway, his powerful figure filling the open space.
— Marilyn Harris
My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.
— John Newbery
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
— Jay McInerney
In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.
— Jeff Garlin
We have two layers of presence: the universe of doing and the universe of being; the outline and the inside.
— Pramod Bajpai
My Templeton is to Cooperstown as a shadow is to the tree that spawned it; an outline that takes texture from the ground it falls on.
— Lauren Groff
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
— Jefferson Smith
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.
— Wesley Clark
We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.
— Robert Breault
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
— William Blake
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
— George Stephen
In general design and outline it looked the standard sort of tower for imprisoning princesses in; it was mainly used to store old furniture. However,
— Terry Pratchett
The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked ...
— Chuck Palahniuk
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. — David Levithan
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.
— Katherine Moennig
week essential oil course outline manual. In this manual
— Jess Weagle
Only a handful of minutes ago, I'd seen the outline of her pass in front of the windows. Sadly, she was completely clothed.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
— Edward Carpenter
These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.
— Jodi Picoult
Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not here.
— Joan Steinau Lester
You cannot be doomed, after all, as long as you can still see the faint outline of hope on the opposite shore.
— Jodi Picoult
I always work from an outline.
— Sarah Mlynowski
She leans forward, revealing an ear: a freshly formed, soap-smooth, pretty ear, its delicate outline glistening with a tracery of fine hairs.
— Haruki Murakami
If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.
— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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 never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
— Patricia MacLachlan
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
— Jean Aitchison
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
— J.K. Rowling
I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.
— Margaret Stohl
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
— Hallie Ephron
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
— Margaret Atwood
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
— Carson McCullers
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.
— Dennis Miller
She was like an outline of the painting of the Holy Virgin that an artist has sketched in black and white, but not yet filled with colour.
— Karen Maitland
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
— Drew Goddard
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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.
— Sandra Bernhard
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
— Henry David Thoreau
The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
— Marya Mannes
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
— Sarah Dessen
In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.
— Rabindranath Tagore
When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness.
— George Orwell
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.
— Colley Cibber
Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.
— Masha Tupitsyn
I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.
— Kathleen Turner
She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.
— John Green
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
— George Eliot
The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.
— Mark Batterson
Writing is difficult. It's a time commitment, it's labor and I'd have to get myself to sit down and actually do the work and outline.
— Busy Philipps
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
— Robin Wasserman
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
— Steve Erickson
Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.
— Alfred Armand Montapert
