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Detail Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”

Neil Gaiman

Observation, Detail, Storytelling, Perspective, Creativity

2. “Details are the Life of Prose.”

Jack Kerouac

Writing, Detail, Prose, Craft, Literary Advice

3. “Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Detail, Investigation, Experience, Crime, Methodology

4. “Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.”

William Blake

Detail, Care, Morality, Philosophical Advice, Artistic Principle, Ethical Insight

5. “I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”

Henry James

Linguistic Expression, Precision, Language, Detail, Style

6. “Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.”

Sylvia Plath

Sensory, Femininity, Expression, Detail, Emotion, Introspection

7. “If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie

Attention To Detail, Small Successes, Task Management, Detail, Success, Task

8. “Never a button without a buttonhole.”

Coco Chanel

Fashion Detail, Style Perfection, Clothing Design, Fashion, Detail, Design

9. “I see the steam of the chocolate and the plates of blueberry tarts.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Senses, Food, Memory, Detail, Perception, Nostalgia

10. “Caress the details, the divine details. In high art and pure science detail is everything.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Art, Science, Detail, Perfection, Focus, Beauty

11. “Caress the detail, the divine detail.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Divine Detail, Sensory Perception, Artistic Touch, Detail, Perception, Touch

12. “And on the pillow of the bed lay the head.”

Roald Dahl

Surreal Imagery, Strange Scene, Visual Detail, Imagery, Scene, Detail

13. “Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”

Walt Disney

Ride Improvement, Perfection Focus, Creative Refinement, Innovation, Quality, Detail

14. “I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Color, Nature, Observation, Detail, Art

15. “Trifles make the sum of life.”

Charles Dickens

Life, Small Things, Value, Detail, Reflection

16. “I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.”

Henry David Thoreau

Observation, Nature, Patience, Curiosity, Detail

17. “Remember to get the weather in your damn book—weather is very important.”

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Detail, Reflection, Environment, Creativity

18. “If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.”

Ernest Hemingway

Observation, Writing, Detail, Experience, Creativity

19. “It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.”

Maya Angelou

Writing, Discipline, Cooking, Creativity, Detail

20. “It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.”

George Orwell

Connection, Time, Detail, Intimacy, Perception