I have an obsession with details and pattern.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Details create the big picture.
It’s The Tiny Details that are vital for a photograph.
Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped...
When I talk about free indirect style I am really talking about point of view, and when I talk about point of view I am really talking about the perception of detail, and when I talk about detail I'm really talking about character, and when I talk ab...
I would make up silver lies studded with shards of perfect detail like mosaic splinters, sharp and everlasting, the kind of tiny faultless detail that would make them all sure that what I said was true. I would have alibis. I would bring in other peo...
Indeed, and crucially so, the serial form took the control of the novel away from the reader and left him in an imagined space that could not be thought of in terms of the physical space still to be read. At the end of each instalment the reader woul...
When we discuss a novel it is only partially to hear another person's 'view', it is much more to find out what we ourselves think in order to possess the text more completely. Such a possession is then a composite one, it is the book itself and the a...
I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind t...
Try to remember some details. For the world is filled with people who were torn from their sleep with no one to mend the tear, and unlike wild beasts they live each in his lonely hiding place and they die together on battlefields and in hospitals. An...
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
Twitter—up to the minute minute details.
Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
The details of life have a tendency to interfere with the actual living of life.
I am about as detailed as a shadow.
The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
