#outline

I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

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I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#chinese #following #gets #i #i think

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#broad #direction #get #gets #go

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fun #good #i #like #lot

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#day #each #even #experience #fact

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ↗

— Thomas Wentworth

#forever #love #mother #outline #permanent

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#amount #certain #freedom #i #i do

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #down #fast #five #had

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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