Detail Quote by Mary Butts Download Open image ““She saw the skin pull under the driver's ears and knew that he was laughing.”” — Mary Butts ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detail Imagery Show-don-t-tell Writing-craft
“I sat in the driver's seat and looked over at her again. The pale light of the night softened the lines of her face,… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
“He saw her bright, fierce little face break into laughter when the crowd laughed. It was good. Laughter is good for the soul and… — Paulette Jiles Copy Share Image
“He stilled at her laughter. It was rich and sexy, dark and playful. Something he’d never heard out of her mouth. His vision blurred for a second when she dragged his shirt up enough for their skin to touch. Then she gave up on getting the shirt off and latched on to his mouth again. He groaned as the heat… — Taryn Elliott Copy Share
“Oh, come on now," she said mildly, as a car suddenly pulled into the lane in front of her. She lifted her hand to toot the horn and then didn't bother. Note how I didn't scream and yell like a mad person , she thought for the benefit of that afternoon's psychotic truck driver, just in case he happened to… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share
“He smiled like he couldn't help it. She couldn't believe it. He was actally smiling , teeth and all. Had she ever seen him… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
“He seemed uncharacteristically nervous as he reached toward her cheek. He slowly took an errant pink strand of hair between his fingers and tucked… — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
“What he did do was reach the driver’s side door and throw a hand up in the air, punching the night sky twice. And… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“I felt my cheeks turn red, and she laughed out loud. But I didn't mind too much, because the last thing she saw was… — Jessica Verday Copy Share Image
“Sometimes her cheeks hurt from laughing when he finally held her car door open for her in the evening. He was there every day… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“He lifted up on one elbow and looked down at her. What she wouldn't give to see what he saw, to know what made… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“At one point I thought I broke his face, but he turned out to just be laughing really hard.” — Vali Chandrasekaran Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“For some days before, as well as for some nights, Vincent had observed a shadow about the quays. First because it had tried to… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious as to… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it. — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“the things you hate are only your body being knocked about by phenomena” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
“Like men of his kind, at cross-purposes with their purpose, there could be nothing fortuitous that happened to him.” — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember what it was like when the theories of Freud first escaped from the study and the clinic, and… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good… — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
A lot of silence takes so much specificity and detail. To not fill the space with words takes restraint and an extraordinary amount of… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in the person… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a… — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
“When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
