Top 101 Outline Quotes

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.

One can, in principle, outline sort of a set of neural circuits that are critically involved and even identify disorders that affect different components of that neural circuit and see what happens if you knock out, for example, inability to recognize faces, how it affects your response to portraiture.

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that’s going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.

I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don’t do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

I outline and outline and outline, and then I’m very specific about the stuff I write. That’s my process.

Partly because of the way I write – I don’t work with an outline or in a straight line. I work where I can see things happening, and so I get lots and lots of little bits to start with, and I’m doing the research at the same time.

I don’t plan the books ahead of time. It’s not like Harry Potter. I don’t work in a straight line. I don’t write with an outline.

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I’ve written, but the next morning I see that it’s crap. Then I start again – make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

I don’t write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that’s going to happen. There’s an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it’s just about getting the outline of the forest.

I really don’t keep an outline; I don’t organize in any way. I just write.

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.

I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.

I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don’t do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.

I never played Freddy as real. In the true bible of Wes Craven’s outline for the films, Freddy only manifests himself in dreams. And a lot goes into a dream, not the least of which is imagination. So Freddy is secondhand information. Freddy is an urban legend that’s been handed down to these teenagers over the years.

I usually know where I want to end up when I begin, but I have no idea how I’m going to get there… I don’t write with an outline, and surprises happen on the way, and sometimes it changes.

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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.’

I don’t plot the books out ahead of time, I don’t plan them. I don’t begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don’t work with an outline and I don’t work in a straight line.

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.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they’re going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I’d say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to try to be an investor yourself? The answer for most people is probably they shouldn’t try. You should put your money in index funds and not try to be a stock picker.

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.

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I’ll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

I do better just letting the stories develop. I don’t outline very well, and I can’t follow it if I do. Once I’ve outlined it, why write the damn book?

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.

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.

We don’t outline, so we don’t have prospective tasks to divide up. It’s just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene through, write it up, proceed to the next.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it’s going to turn out.

When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

Fashion in the mid-’90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as more than an outline, so I used fashion to say that for me.

When I’m writing the first draft, I’m writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

It is time to go on the offense. Hold people accountable for the wrongdoings they do and commit against the American people, use the vestiges of the Constitution which gives us the outline of how we hold them accountable and make the Justice Department do their job.

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.

I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don’t like milk because they don’t like milk.

All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn’t feel inspired to me. I get bored with that, and really, I just want it to be fun.

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

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

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.

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.

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

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

I don’t write a play from beginning to end. I don’t write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It’s not all in ether. It’s on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what’s missing, and that’s my first draft.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I’ve tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

If I outline Prince Charming, I could end up with someone with no chemistry. I don’t believe in trying to calculate one type of chemistry via algorithm, but I do think you need to do as much as you possibly can.