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“For example, one key character who was definitely not supposed to die did just that. I did everything I could to get her up again, but she just... died on me.”

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Book:Outlining Your Novel

Source: Outlining Your Novel

“Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.”

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Book:A Short Guide to Writing About Art

Source: A Short Guide to Writing About Art

“I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.”

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Author:Sara Gruen

“If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.”

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Author:Rian Johnson

“The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in...the Constitution, leaving the other powers to people...or to the states.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.”

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Author:Brit Marling

“Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the mini-bible. So I gave them something, but I really didn't want to do it that way.”

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Author:Whit Stillman

“Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.”

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Author:James Franco

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

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Author:E. L. Doctorow

“As far as outlining is concerned, I don't outline humor. I might right down a word or two to remind myself of a punch line I thought of, but the actual structure of a piece I really don't. I don't think it would really help me because for me the process is joke, joke, joke, joke.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with. And I really think that a lot of fiction books end badly because terrific writers said, "I'll just figure it out" and plunge in, but have created so many problems that they are kind of impossible to solve. I mean, I'm talking really good writers do this and you can tell when they got to the end they either had to do something preposterous or they just don't really resolve things. So for fiction I spend a lot more time outlining and for humor I really don't do much of it.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

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

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.”

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Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Could he be naked beneath his breeches? They seemed molded to him, outlining the powerful lines of his thighs and the swell just above— Oh, God. She closed her eyes. She’d been looking at his—Not only was it rude, but it had sent an amazing tingle through her, almost as if she’d touched it. “Fiona, if you ever look at me like that again, I will not be held responsible for what I do.” Jack was so close that she could feel his breath on her temple. “Do you understand?”

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Book:How to Abduct a Highland Lord

Source: How to Abduct a Highland Lord

“It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult losses in 2012, the RNC has made great strides in identifying the problem, outlining solutions, and implementing a strategy to turn things around. The RNC's outreach and communication with African Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, youth, and the faith-based community is working. We've already seen it pay off in the FL 13 congressional race and we will see that continue across the country in the 2014 midterms and in 2016.”

“I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.”

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Author:Jeffery Deaver

“I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.”

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Author:Jeffery Deaver

“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex. None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.”

“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.”

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Book:Conversations with E.L. Doctorow

Source: Conversations with E.L. Doctorow

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