#outline

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

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#cried #empty #nothing #outline #past

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

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

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#american people #captured #communist #countless #countless millions

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

#board #coaches #dime #dozen #get

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing. ↗

— George Stephen

#i #novel #outlined #started #writing

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. ↗

— George Stephen

#before #had #i #idea #much