#outlines

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

#certain #color #energetic #great #making

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches. ↗

— Don Roff

#outlines #writing #imagination

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. ↗

— Josephine Hart

#geography #landscape #lives #our #our lives

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#action #before #believe #broad #charted

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#does #doing #every #four #fun

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. ↗

— Garth Nix

#outlines #writing #inspirational

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#dim #face #future #into #look

I'm a great believer in outlines. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#great #great believer #i #outlines

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#came #dialogue #did #farther #got

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

#book #going #happen #i #just