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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
Fall
Victim
Circus
Outlining
Knives
New
Commas
Yorker
Precision
New Yorker
Act
I spend a lot of time outlining before I write the first word.
John Grisham
Time
Word
First
Before
Spend
Outlining
Write
Lot
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
E. L. Doctorow
You
People
Writing
About
Outlining
Write
Talking
None
Doing
Planning
Researching
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
Harlan Coben
Writing
Characters
Only
Outlining
Ideas
Coming
Up
Creating
Researching
SERE is a classified program, but every person informed of it is 'read in' to the details of the program. Even the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which administers SERE, starts its PowerPoint presentation with a slide outlining the agency's origins.
Malcolm Nance
Every
Starts
Slide
Details
Classified
Outlining
Joint
Recovery
PowerPoint
Read
Person
Which
Informed
Agency
Personnel
Even
Origins
Presentation
Program
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
Jeffery Deaver
Book
Spend
Months
About
Outlining
Eight
Researching
When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.
Ehud Olmert
Me
Peace
People
Political
Argument
Possible
Minister
Would
Outlining
Prime
Prime Minister
Israeli
Expected
Achieving
Forum
International
Bold
Initiatives
Now
Why
Present
Bring
Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
Martin Filler
Book
Gift
Mind
Black
Made
First
Build
Composition
About
Superhuman
Objects
Outlining
Potential
Color
Pursuing
Coloring
Lazy
Picasso
Put
Him
Unusual
Might
Then
Manner
Full
Full Potential
Figures
Filling
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
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
Stephen R. George
Work
Time
You
Chapter
Writing
Impossible
First
Before
Difficult
Benefit
Those
Kind
Kinds
Outlining
Through
Invest
Stuck
Push
Almost
Because
Blocks
Discover
Lot
Get
Done
Story
Flaws
Draft
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
Hallie Ephron
Me
Courage
Training
Outline
Outlining
Gives
Write
Putting
Like
Always
Go
Off
Wheels
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Sara Gruen
Book
Sometimes
Organic
Books
Way
Outlining
Written
Like
Because
Want
Certain
Certain Way
Things