74 Outline Quotes for You to Enjoy

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. Sai Baba

Future Thoughts You Path Past Matters Live Every Outline Exists Pattern Create Created Your Moment Now Acts Present

Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It's free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken. Jim Elliot

God Broken You Word Will Free Down Final Philosophies Say Systematic Systems Be Careful Outline Individual No-One Bound Tie How Fit Cannot Which Theology Your Organized Creeds Set Careful

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper. Robert Anton Wilson

Animals Paper Outline Territories Ink Humans

I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline. Antony Beevor

Work Chapter Relevant Archives Outline Make Read Material Subject Skeleton Then Across File Each Round Start Copy

I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor. Art Bell

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing. Barry Schwartz

Writing Long Paragraph Slowly Outline More Directions Take Idea Always Surprised Expand Than Actually Things Start

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson

Important Build Focal Find Outline Scenes Write Writer Generally Head Towards Am Them Who Works

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Myself Events Every Projected Give Outline Like Fairly Because Dealing Real Still Information Much Pages Used Manuscript Two Need

I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages. Cynthia Voigt

Mistakes Big Liable Out See Outline More Outlining Clearly Come Make Big Fan Than Fan Then Pages Theory Here

For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance. David Bergen

Morning Me Darkness Feeling Trees Distance Out Clarity Similar Outline Lifts Highway Perhaps Reveals Prairie Discover Story Early Early Morning

I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.' David Lowery

Saying Made Out Something Outline Scenes Had Like Still Saints Were Lot Shoot Improvisation Just Happens Script Room Them Sentence Bodies Page Figure Nick

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them. Dino De Laurentiis

Work Best Me Director Try Job First Past Whatever Seventh Some Outline Only Writer Writers Takes Support Make Real Go Very Closely Movie Them Then Producers Star Draft

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

Outline Never Know Going Happen Plan Novel

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing. Elmore Leonard

What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that. Janet Evanovich

Good Action Plot Outline Particularly Because

I know the relationships, and I already know my characters and how I'm going to reveal my characters to my readers - how I'm going to feed them information about that character. That stuff doesn't have to be in my outline. Janet Evanovich

Character Relationships Characters About Outline Feed Stuff Know Readers Reveal How Going Information Them

I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material. Jayne Anne Phillips

Kind Inside Outline Material Listen Whisper

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline. Jeff Garlin

Improvise Outline Generally

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. Jeffery Deaver

Book Sit Down Easy Percent Outline Write Part Then

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that. Jesmyn Ward

Work Creative Book Will Beginning Whatever Approach Characters Kind Outline Writer Idea Like Nonfiction Am End Just Fiction Then Really Found Vague Vague Idea

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