In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James Copy Share Image
The key to good worldbuilding is leaving out most of what you create. You, as the author, had damn well better know… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team,… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In Portland, I am more involved in the details of trade discussions because I've been around that sport longer and can watch… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Details matter. They create depth, and depth creates authenticity. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes],… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
You learn what you need to kill and take care of the details. It's like changing a tire. The first time you're… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper. — Austin Scarlett Copy Share Image
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
