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Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then paints in all… — Amber Benson
I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the… — Unknown Author
Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous… — Pascal Bruckner
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable… — Andrea Barrett
This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how… — Stephen Coonts
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in… — Rivka Galchen
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… — Paul Caponigro
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… — Robert Kroetsch
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… — Brendan Gleeson
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… — Lynn Flewelling
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… — Jaimy Gordon
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… — James E. Talmage
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… — Takashi Tokita
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… — Unknown Author
Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history. — Pat Metheny
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… — Ansel Adams
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… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail, — Katy Perry
So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different — Rohinton Mistry
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… — V.S. Naipaul
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… — B.F. Skinner
I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall… — Thom Yorke
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… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity. — Rick Moody
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… — Ian Fleming

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