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• The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.

  Paul Caponigro

  Heart, Eye, Keys

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• George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.

  Robert Kroetsch

  Baseball, Running, Fun

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• A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you have to live your life like a fantasy adventure. The trick is the ability to synthesize your own everyday experiences into your fiction. Infuse your characters with believable emotions and motivations. Infuse your world with rich sensory detail. For that you have to be in touch with your own existence and your own soul, the dark and the light of it.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Motivation, Writing, Adventure

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• I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only You Know. Only a thorough initiate of the scene who also had some genius with language could summon the demotic yet electric voice for the job. If there is ruefulness, now, for the way he treated his body, his girlfriends, and his family, he wisely reprises in his book, in neon detail, the fever that once placed him in the same drunken boat with Iggy Pop, Rimbaud and Artaud.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Song, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

  James E. Talmage

  Uplifting, Covenant, Temples

  James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths

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• I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself, is the way to move forward.

  Takashi Tokita

  Moving, Creating, Way

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• With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book.

  Linda Gregerson

  Book, Soul, Quality

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• Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Brother, Character, Interesting

  "Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

  Pat Metheny

  Music, Powerful, Ideas

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• The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

  Ansel Adams

  Glowing, Land, Sky

  Ansel Adams, Karen E. Haas, Rebecca A. Senf (2005). “Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Real, Drawing, Wish

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• I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail.

  Katy Perry

  Planning

  Interview with Rose Apodaca, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 03, 2010.

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• So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

  Rohinton Mistry

  Different, Stories

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Family Matters”, p.157, Faber & Faber

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• All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Documentation, Mystery

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

  B. F. Skinner

  Memories, Men, Thinking

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• I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Order, Magic

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• I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

  Rick Moody

  Writing, Opportunity, Wanted

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• I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very persnickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.

  Ian Fleming

  Interesting, Meals, Ridiculous

  "How to make James Bond relevant - make him battle Trump and the oligarchs" by Paul Mason, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2016.

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• When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Writing, Mind

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

  Brian Herbert

  Innovation, Matter, Firsts

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2002). “Dune: House Corrino”, p.164, Spectra

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• When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

  David Byrne

  Dumb, Visible

  David Byrne (2012). “How Music Works”, p.182, Canongate Books

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• I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

  Libba Bray

  Heart, Bones, Said

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.306, Delacorte Press

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• That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

  Wes Anderson

  Reality, World, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the set. While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else. By doing this I sense instantly when something isn’t right. Watching something does not mean fixing your gaze on it, but being aware of it in a natural way. I believe this is what the medieval Noh playwright and theorist Zeami meant by ‘watching with a detached gaze.’

  Akira Kurosawa

  Believe, Mean, Eye

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• The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.... While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most settings, uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS."

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Intelligent, People

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