#outline

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. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#carries #discourse #even #every #methodology

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

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

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

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

— J. K. Rowling

#basic #decided #i #i always #i write

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. ↗