#detail

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#buy #detail #every #fantasy #happen

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy. ↗

— David Hackworth

#detail #enemy #every #hence #kind

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

#appear #been #characters #colors #details

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#details #died #distinguish #ends #every

Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#done #fertility #get #had #i

Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#belief #details #easier #either #harder

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#business #detail #i #i love #love

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#details #distinguish #hard #hear #once

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#detail #distinguish #longer #told #victory

I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

#against #application #argument #being #conclusions