Details Quotes - Page 5

• Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of looking at a film would be, whereas the screenplays I wrote in Paris were actual blueprints for how to do the film, with every gesture, every little movement noted in exhaustive detail.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Paris, Style

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• My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Character, Mind

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.201, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

  Robert James Thomson

  Maps, Online, Elevators

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I think that maps showing platform details would be useful to visitors, especially to chaperones of school groups, etc. Also useful would be either a compass rose or an arrow pointing North at every metro exit. Emerging from underground is disorienting, especially at night.

  Robert James Thomson

  School, Night, Thinking

  "Dr. Gridlock" with Robert Thomson, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Writing, Scratches

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• I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

  Chali 2na

  Art, Trying, Attention

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Europe, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Thinking, Opposites, Confusion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Play, Theatre, Imagine

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having excessive screen time to explore, in detail and in-depth, lots of other subsidiary or ancillary supporting characters.

  Michael Uslan

  Character, Years, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B) enlarging my understanding of the central characters has to be sacrificed. I have huge folders of details - research - with a story like Netherlands. Only a very small part of it gets used. The old iceberg analogy again.

  Jim Shepard

  Moving, Character, Understanding

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."

  Jim Shepard

  Thinking, Sticks, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

  Sarah Stillman

  Space, Listening, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

  Richard Flanagan

  Camels, Stories, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I learned a lot of details about 1920s clothes, cars, kitchen appliances, and food. I had a character eating peanut butter in one scene until I learned that peanut butter wasn't commercially packaged and sold until 1924.

  Laura Moriarty

  Character, Clothes, Car

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

  Akhil Sharma

  Thinking, Unique, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

  Lily King

  Stories, Pages, Given

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Real, War, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.

  Zachary Lazar

  Real, Writing, Mash Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I use a lot of specific places in my songs - traditionally, a lot from Minneapolis and St. Paul, where I grew up. Most people, especially when you get into international touring, have not been there. So you say, "Well, isn't it risky to talk about the corner of Franklin Avenue and Lyndale?" If you do it right, someone should say, "God, I know a corner like that." Offering specific details to describe something universal.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Offering, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.

  Roz Chast

  Art, Black, Nerd

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some people feel that humans have a right to eat other animals but not to trash the earth. They may choose veganism because a vegan's ecological footprint is light, but once they are not invested in eating animals, they are more likely to be willing to learn the details of what happens to them. That learning will encourage compassionate people to stick with a plant-based diet.

  Karen Dawn

  Animal, Light, People

  "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.

  Josh Radnor

  War, Cutting, Doctors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Impact, People, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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