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• Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Wish, Fiction

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• You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Artist, Flames

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.72, Vintage

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• A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Curves, Glasses

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.1292, e-artnow

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• Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

  Julie Andrews

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

  Margaret Atwood

  Moles, Way, Faces

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hate, Writing, I Hate

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

  Gordon Allport

  Psychology, Becoming, Acquiring Knowledge

  Gordon Willard Allport (1955). “Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”, p.23, Yale University Press

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• The only way for us to make sense of life today is to appreciate where the future is going. Scripture outlines that future, not with detailed dates, but with a general outline of what is to come. That outline is designed not to have us prepare charts, but to prepare our hearts.

  Darrell Bock

  Heart, Appreciate, Today

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• At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

  Truman Capote

  Notebook, Ideas, Imagination

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.30, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Lucy Larcom

  Winter, Artist, Years

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• I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

  Clive Cussler

  Block, Moving, Book

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• I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Writing, Years

  "Nuff Said - An Interview With Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Crazy, Real, Elements

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, p. 483, 1967.

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• I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

  William J. Clinton

  Mistake, Self, Trying

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• Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Zero, Order, Levels

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• My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

  John Newbery

  First Impression, Technique, Records

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• Having done television for almost 20 years now, a pilot is kind of like a rough draft. It's like bringing people into your ultrasound and hooking up to the monitor and going, "Isn't my baby beautiful?" "Yeah. I can only see the outline of it, but it looks like it might be."

  Matt Bomer

  Beautiful, Baby, Ultrasounds

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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• No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.

  Louis L'Amour

  School, Giving, Matter

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

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• I always work from an outline.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  "The traveling sisterhood of 'How to Be Bad'". Interview with Sonja Bolle, www.latimes.com. June 1, 2008.

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• the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

  Marya Mannes

  Race, People, Car

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• I shall praise those faces which seem to project out of the picture as though they were sculptured, and I shall censure those faces in which I see no art but that of outline.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Art, Portraiture, Faces

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• Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Perspective, Lines

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• One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.

  William Carlos Williams

  Profound, Down And, Dignity

  1923 Spring and All, 'Spring and All'.

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• A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

  Paul Klee

  Expression, Quality, Fairy

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”

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• I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Stories, Ends, Know How

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