Outlines Quotes - Page 5

• It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.

  Julie Taymor

  Kids, Artist, Thinking

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• Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as many as five at a time.

  Danielle Steel

  Book, Years, Two

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• The closest thing to an outline is, because my memory is so bad now, if something occurs to me that I think might be important or pivotal, a lot of times I'll scribble notes down somewhere until I can get back to the book. Of course half the time I look at those notes the next morning and think, "What was that about?"

  Anna Quindlen

  Morning, Memories, Book

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• With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but on the Central Intelligence Agency. And I'll always comply with the law.

  James Mattis

  Army, Agency, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow quite sternly...for a good long while. Then it turns out in some way to be insurmountably wrong and I am forced to re-think every component. Usually at this point I throw hundreds of pages away.

  Megan Chance

  Character, Thinking, Long

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Husband, Coffee, Way

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

  Paul S. Kemp

  Writing, Sequence

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

  Rebecca West

  Fate, Men, Cells

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lying, Reality

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• Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Moving, Men, Sublime

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• In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Ocean, Night

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• My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Writing, Half

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make it clear who the major characters are, what they want, and what obstacles they face.

  Chevy Stevens

  Character, Long, Trying

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• I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

  Sefi Atta

  Novel

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• The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Character, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are just concentrating on 'ok, let's worry about just comedy today,' and there are days when you're like 'you know what, we gotta just beef up the story.'. But, it's not like process wise it's that technically separate. One informs the other, so they kinda all happen together ideally.

  Todd Phillips

  Wise, Mean, Worry

  "School for Scoundrels' Director Todd Phillips Interview". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. September 27, 2006.

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• I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand. I found out that if you make an outline you're much less likely to get blocked when you get into the middle of the story.

  Rick Riordan

  Block, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: starraptureblog.wordpress.com

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• I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies. I write a concept, a treatment, an outline, and if I sell that to a studio, then someone else does the actual production and I go on to another project, although I keep the title executive producer.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Ideas, Goes On

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Press conference, www.movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

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• We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like your creative-writing class in school. You know, you have the outline and then you just kind of plug the stuff in the little map you've made.

  Crowder

  Writing, School, Class

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• 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

  Writing, Important, Scene

  "JordanCon". Interview with Richard Fife, www.tor.com. June 7, 2010.

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• As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

  Aristotle

  Writing, Firsts, Details

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3458, Delphi Classics

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• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

  Terry Brooks

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.76, Del Rey

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• Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Mean, Lines

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.

  Kenneth Clark

  Character, White, Drawing

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Characteristics, Form

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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