40 quotes found
“Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission”
“The truth of the story lies in the details.”
“Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.”
“The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.”
“Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.”
“Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get...”
“Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendo...”
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have...”
“Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.”
“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.”
“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.”
“My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.”
“He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.”
“To help you fill in the details of the world you are creating, imagine that your characters inhabit a real world. Daydream what it would be like to be there. What would your characters eat, what wo...”
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story...”
“Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.”
“Then Jip went up to the front of the ship and smelt the wind; and he started muttering to himself,"Tar; Spanish onions; kerosene oil; wet raincoats; crushed laurel-leaves; rubber burning; lace-curt...”
“Japan!everything in details perfection.”
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
“Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example”