Outlines Quotes

• I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Writing
  • Plans
  • Useless

• Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

  

  William Landay
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Wells

• 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
  • Kind
  • Feminism
  • Basics

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

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • Writing
  • Sequence
  • Outlines

• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Comparison
  • Unbearable
  • Lightness

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

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Connections
  • Outlines

• Writing is very hard: there will be weeks where I have nothing to write, and days I will get out three issues of the comic book as far as the outlines. It is a matter of there is nothing you can do about it – if the inspiration hits, it hits. If it doesn’t, there is nothing you can do to bring it out.

  

  John Dolmayan System Of A Down
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Outlines

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

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Journey
  • Form
  • Outlines

• The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Character
  • Stories
  • Born

• It seemed that everyone was shouting too loudly and moving too quickly. This sensation was accompanied by nausea, and she had had the impression that something absolutely material, which had been present around her and around everyone and everything forever, but imperceptible, was breaking down the outlines of persons and things and revealing itself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Forever
  • Impression
  • Sensation