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“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.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“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, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind."

(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
― Anton Chekhov

“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.”
― Paula Danziger

“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"

(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
― Anton Chekhov

“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.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“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. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.”
― Burkhard Bilger

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“They could argue for hours on almost any subject; they usually agreed on broad conclusions, but disagreed on almost every detail.”
― Brenda Joyce, An Impossible Attraction

“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 bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact. Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Mind the little things.
Appreciate them.
Revere them, too.”
― Shellen Lubin

“That is the way it is, we always fall in love because of a detail, a nuance. It is a marker we set up for ourselves in the midst of the confusion, in the infinite space of love. The greatest passions come from such little causes.”
― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

“He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower -- is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

“Sometimes the stories are rough on the details.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“The best stories are those that detail triumph over adversity.”
― Steven Magee

“A mystery reader, confronted with a large mass of sudden detail, is going to go—subconsciously, at least—”Aha! somewhere in all of this the writer has planted a Clue!��, and look for that; a reader trained exclusively in mainstream literary fiction is likely to say, “Aha! all this emphasis must point to something of Thematic Importance!��, but an experienced reader of science fiction is going to assume that he or she is meant to take all of those details and out of them construct a world.

Which is why the writer of a science-fiction mystery with literary ambitions is trying to do a quadruple somersault off the trapeze without a net.”
― Debra Doyle

“It's these details that ruin everything always”
― Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“It is the care we bestow on apparently trifling, unatractive and very troublesome minutiae which determines the result.”
― William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation

“You don't have to break down every detail. You just need to see the overall pattern to catch the weakness in it.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“I’m sitting in the aftermath, Fleur,
still absorbing what happened.
I don’t know every detail, just some.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“How like her, though, just to stand and stare at the jets hitting the water. She loved to notice things. Had taught Judith how to be still in a world that moved too quick. "We're not mice," she used to say. "There's no need to scurry.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

“Will said softly, warningly, in the Old Speech, “The Dark will come for you.��
There was a pause. Then very slowly the Walker turned his shaggy grey head back again, and Will flinched in horror as he saw the face. For just a moment, its history was naked upon it. There were bottomless depths of pain and terror in the eyes, the lines of black experience were carved clear and terrible; this man had known somewhere such a fearful dread and anguish that nothing could really ever touch him again. His eyes wide for the first time, stretched open, with his knowledge of horror looking out.
The Walker said emptily, “The Dark has already come for me.”
― Susan Cooper

“You are reaping today what you have sown in the past and what you sow today would be ripe in the future. You are the seed of tomorrow. It is important to know yourself. You must know the minutest details about yourself.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“We crawl by inches. What we find today we will wipe from the blackboard tomorrow and reject it—unless it shows up again the day after tomorrow. And if we find anything which would suit us, that thing we will eye with particular distrust.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Galileo

“Detail exist only with contrast.”
― Monaristw

“Each sensation categorized, from times of oceans.”
― Monaristw

“The writer overthinks by necessity, collecting and complicating small details, while the tournament golfer needs to be simple, myopic, fixated on one detail at a time.”
― Tom Coyne, Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros

“Pay attention to every single detail of your dreams, for a part contains the catalyst that will change your life forever.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Can you detail all problems the Desoto Solar Farm has had during its lifetime?”
― Steven Magee

“This is not just semantics. Language matters.”
― John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

“Do carry on. Have something to drink. It's a poor heart that never rejoices. And begin right at the beginning, if you will, please. I have a very trivial mind. Detail delights me. Ramifications enchant me. Distance no object. No reasonable offers refused.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death