Outline Quotes

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

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