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I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.
Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter.
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
I love anything really feminine. I love any sort of girly detail - anything with a bow or a heart on it, I'm immediately in love with.
At Airbnb, we're trying to build a culture that supports details, celebrates them, and gives our teams creative license to pursue them.
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.
Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.
One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.
When you aren't sure what it is you hate or why you even hate it, it's hard to hold onto the details...you just hold on to the feelings.
Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.
I probably make my team crazy with the questions I ask, but you really have to understand the deep details to be able set your strategy.
Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.
Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.
Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.
By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
I labour over details and whether a song should be a straight pop song form or exploratory. This is the curse with doing things by yourself.
You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all that you look at.
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.
He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.
I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.
Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.
On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details.
I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.
The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.