If a writer stops
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. Ernest Hemingway
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. Ernest Hemingway
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes … Read more
I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details. David E. Hoffman
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. David Denby
Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. David Byrne
Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the … Read more
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. Cary Grant
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. Anton Chekhov
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you’ll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that … Read more
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 of a moonlit night if you’ll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, … Read more