Quotes About Outline

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.

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.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

In Indian music, it is not possible to build anything other than the raga basis. We can run away from its fetters, but not from its main outline.

while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank. Yet this shape, even while its content remained unknown, gave her for the first time since the incident a sense of who she now was.

I finally get to the place where the book has matured in my mind and I can hardly wait to start writing it. Then I just sit down and I start. I hit the go button. I have an outline, which is 70 pages, but I don't look at it. I never have to look at it.

The script is just a blueprint.

It was only after I had finished writing the first part that the whole story revealed itself to me in its tragic character and in the march of its events as unavoidable and sufficiently ample in its outline to give free play to my creative instinct and to the dramatic possibilities of the subject

Youngish artists have a way of being melancholy. It may be that this is merely a symptom of the distress they feel at the absence of definition. They have no very distinct outline either of themselves or of the abstractions that bedevil them. They are, in short, likely to be a bit baffled.

We have more than enough data to create a blueprint.

Nature has no outline. Imagination has" (Blake).

We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

The Aralqum Desert is too new, too large, and its outline too changeable to be on any maps. It's a desert that used to be called the Aral Sea. The new name is gaining favor, although it's not quite as exotic as it sounds. Qum is Uzbek for "sand.

When I signed onto 'Superman,' editors Matt Idelson and Wil Moss gave me a rough outline that JMS had turned in for the remaining issues of the 'Grounded' arc, which amounted to a couple of sentences for each issue, spelling out in general terms where the issue would take place geographically, specific guest stars, things like that.

auger-eyed woman's small stout form, outlining her

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

A plan that is not written is just an idea.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.