detail

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

_this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.

When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.", May 10, 1886)

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)

After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!