Details Quotes - Page 8

• It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

  Richard Flanagan

  Camels, Stories, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having excessive screen time to explore, in detail and in-depth, lots of other subsidiary or ancillary supporting characters.

  Michael Uslan

  Character, Years, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

  Robert James Thomson

  Maps, Online, Elevators

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.

  Roz Chast

  Art, Black, Nerd

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.

  Zachary Lazar

  Real, Writing, Mash Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

  Carl Hart

  Writing, Interesting, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.

  St. Lucia

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.

  Josh Radnor

  War, Cutting, Doctors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Real, War, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

  Gail Zappa

  Brain, Criminals, Attention

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes you'll read something and think, "What is going on here? There must be more to this." The constraints of the news format didn't allow for more detail, or the writer didn't see it or just wasn't interested.

  Joshuah Bearman

  Thinking, News, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

  Lily King

  Stories, Pages, Given

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail.

  Sophie Blackall

  Looks, Too Much, Messages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Brother, Father, War

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin addiction with them. If they seem receptive, you can feel free to talk about it in further detail; if they seem judgmental or uncomfortable, you can move on to other topics.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Moving, Thinking, Addiction

  "Telltale Hurt". Live chat, www.slate.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I don't release many records just as "Fennesz," so when I do, I want to plan everything in detail. It's not that I want to really lead the listener somewhere; it's more about me being satisfied with a project.

  Christian Fennesz

  Records, Want, Release

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• The key is to trust in your own divinity, to know that you are a piece of God, and that you are like what you came from. As a spiritual being, you have Divinity within. When Albert Einstein was asked about the impact of quantum physics, he said, "It's just all details, I just want to think like God thinks." And God thinks in terms of creating, kindness, beauty and goodness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Kindness, Thinking

  Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• If you're running to be president of the United States, you can't just tell people you're going to make America great again. I think you need to begin to explain exactly how you're going to do it policy-wise. We're not going to win a general election with a candidate that refuses to detail policy.

  Marco Rubio

  Wise, Running, Winning

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many secrets and details that don't necessarily get shot in an adaptation. They give you a cushion underneath everything. The detail in the character, the detail in the tone.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Book, Character, Night

  "Tom Hiddleston talks John le Carré's The Night Manager". Empire Interview, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Since reality TV everything is much more celebrity-oriented, there are gossip magazines, people seem to be obsessed with every little detail. That's why I'm so pleased that I'm not starting out now.

  Andy Bell

  Reality, People, Gossip

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• So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

  Teju Cole

  Book, Smartphones, Cities

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works.

  Philip Kitcher

  Ideas, Perspective, Attention

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.

  Philip Kitcher

  Would Be, Examination, Vivid

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.

  Sue Tompkins

  Play, Ideas, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Attention, Stories, Stuff

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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