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I always work from an outline.
In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.
I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.
I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.
One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.
The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.
I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.
If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.
No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that's going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
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.
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
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.
Need a body-confidence boost? Pick up a pair of dumbbells and let your gaze linger on the outline of your biceps as you lift the weights.
I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.
Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.
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.
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
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.
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just kind of take over sometimes.
I do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once I've outlined it, why write the damn book?
I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there were perhaps too many of those.
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
All my writer friends outline their books, and I find that hard. It doesn't feel inspired to me. I get bored with that, and really, I just want it to be fun.
Use Anastasia Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil to outline the brows and give them more definition. To soften edges, comb color through with the spooley end.