Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. Dale Carnegie American Writer More Dale Carnegie Quotes 3
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail. Laurell K. Hamilton American Writer More Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes 1
Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. Derek Jacobi British Actor More Derek Jacobi Quotes 0
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. Gustav Mahler Austrian Composer More Gustav Mahler Quotes 0
Caress the detail, the divine detail. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. Jean-Paul Sartre French Philosopher More Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes 0
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. Donna Tartt American Novelist More Donna Tartt Quotes 0
I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it. Blair Underwood American Actor More Blair Underwood Quotes 0
I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months. Jim Walton American Businessman More Jim Walton Quotes 0
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution. John Griffin Carlisle American Politician More John Griffin Carlisle Quotes 0
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. Emily Carr Canadian Artist More Emily Carr Quotes 0
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. Henri Cartier-Bresson French Photographer More Henri Cartier-Bresson Quotes 0
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. Fredrik Bajer Danish Writer More Fredrik Bajer Quotes 0
I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be. Tom Baker Actor More Tom Baker Quotes 0
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. Fredrik Bajer Danish Writer More Fredrik Bajer Quotes 0
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. Honore De Balzac French Novelist More Honore De Balzac Quotes 0
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. L. Sprague de Camp American Author More L. Sprague de Camp Quotes 0
There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing. George Eads American Actor More George Eads Quotes 0
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one. Lion Feuchtwanger German Novelist More Lion Feuchtwanger Quotes 0
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. Theophile Gautier French Poet More Theophile Gautier Quotes 0
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. Stephen Gardiner British Architect More Stephen Gardiner Quotes 0
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy. David Hackworth American Soldier More David Hackworth Quotes 0
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. Jurgen Habermas German Philosopher More Jurgen Habermas Quotes 0
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. Samuel Alexander Australian Philosopher More Samuel Alexander Quotes 0