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My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.
— David Bronstein
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
My outlines are always very goal-based. What do I want to have happen by the ending and how can I earn that.
— Brandon Sanderson
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
— Stephen King
In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.
— Ryu Murakami
Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it.
— Judith Chambers
This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.
— Ayn Rand
What's left to lean together with, longing against, when life's outlines get swept away?
- Imru'l-Qays — Ann Chamberlin
- Imru'l-Qays — Ann Chamberlin
I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.
— Holly Black
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
— Philip Pearlstein
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
— Josephine Hart
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
— Anne McCaffrey
It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.
— Paula White
Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
— George R R Martin
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
— William Blake
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.
— Jim Bishop
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.
— Charlaine Harris
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
— Jefferson Smith
At that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.
— Don Roff
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
It was not the sun, but the moonlight that shimmered in the garden, edging the leaves with silver and touching the outlines of the statuary figures.
— Diane Setterfield
I'm a great believer in outlines.
— Tom Wolfe
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
— Carson McCullers
People differ in their proficiency at tracing the outlines of another self, and thus their ability to love also varies. (207)
— Thomas Lewis
I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.
— Kathleen Turner
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
— Evan Sayet
Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.
— Carl Sandburg
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.
— Alice Cary
I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.
— Sefi Atta
Sometimes I wake up and wonder if those chalk outlines they have at murder scenes get together for holiday parties ...
— Neil Leckman
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
— Flannery O'Connor
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
— Antoni Gaudi