I'm a great believer in outlines.
I always work from an outline.
So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.
In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.
Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as thoug...
One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.
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.
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the patient. When anesthetics were discovered, pious peo...
...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
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.
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
