Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Our music is harder to play than it sounds. It's the small details you don't realize are there until you try and… — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news.… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
I think it's a certain gift when songwriters can go about their daily lives and extract little details that no one else… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I don't want you to understand the details. To feel how it feels, you just have to be on the ground with… — Shaul Schwarz Copy Share Image
I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people.… — Linda Kaplan Thaler Copy Share Image
There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you want to succeed always associate with winners, people who have understood something. You will notice that they all share something… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
