#detail

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#diary #i #kept #never #notes

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#fixed #flash #forever #illuminated #life

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it. ↗

— Albert Speer

#cases #detailed #dropped #feign #given

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#directed #films #get #gone #good

The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before. ↗

— Peter Dawson

#been #before #cause #detail #dragging

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#class #detail #experience #intelligent #knows

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details. ↗

— Brooke Langton

#adrenaline #any #being #car #car accident

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #details #intuition #nerd #nerdiness

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#allowances #believable #detailed #fabric #i

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind." (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#detail #nature #show-don-t-tell #writing #life