The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

I wanted not the momentary suspense but the whole world to which it belonged.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

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

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!”(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)

The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither finish nor beauty to the results. In truth, in truism if the reader...

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

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...

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It’s not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

I wouldn’t say that I’m particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience....

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

That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

I suggested to her that she start writing. “I can’t write at all,” she said. “Neither can many bestsellers,” I replied. “But that pesky detail didn’t stop them.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience’s face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

To successfully create illusion, the first thing you need is trust, but to perfect an illusion, the false reality most appear as authentic as the one it hides. Careful attention must be paid to every...

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!

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one’s existence a minor work of art.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and...

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don’t forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

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

He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous...

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

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.