Outlines Quotes - Page 8

• I'm not somebody who comes in with a whole outline, and says, "Here's the movie we're going to make." That's not what a documentary is for me. I think a documentary is about capturing events as they unfold in real time.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Real, Thinking, Documentaries

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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• I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters, what are their relationships to each other, and just trying to get a sense of what and who this book is about. Usually around that point of 100 pages, I start to feel like I'm lost, I have too much material, it's time to start making some choices. It's typically at that point that I sit down and try to make a formal outline and winnow out what's not working and what I'm most interested in, where the story seems to be going.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

  James Frey

  Writing, Instinct, Feels

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Stories, Rubbish

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• I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.

  Pamela Clare

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Thinking, Feelings, Way

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

  Bob Shacochis

  Writing, Discovery, Joy

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• And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

  John Betjeman

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  John Betjeman (1997). “John Betjeman: coming home : an anthology of his prose 1920-1977”, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Would Be, Speech

  "The Philosophy of Paine" by Thomas A. Edison, June 7, 1925.

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• This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

  Wesley Clark

  United States, Kind, Broads

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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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 inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

  George Orwell

  Latin, Fall, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

  Andre Dubus

  Writing, Opposites, Grace

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• I don't think I'm good in bed. My husband never said anything, but after we made love he'd take a piece of chalk and outline my body.

  Joan Rivers

  Husband, Thinking, Bed

  "Joan Rivers Quotes About Men" by Emma Overton, www.askmen.com. September 05, 2014.

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• The other great thing about it, that seems to be the case in streaming, is that a lot more scripts are written before you start. Because they are planning on allowing it all up at one time, you have four or five scripts to read and an outline of where it's going to go. The writers aren't chasing their tails as much. You're able to see the beginning, middle and end of a storyline, and that is rare. Streaming allows that, in a way that network TV doesn't.

  Tom Riley

  Four, Able, Way

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

  M. John Harrison

  Country, Cities, Forever

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• It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Real, War, Shadow

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk.

  Mira Grant

  Girl, Letting Go, Brother

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• There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.

  Carson McCullers

  Journey, Form

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Scare, Might, Bones

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