{"quotes":[{"text":"After all, I was dressed in linen and so retained a certain capacity for nonchalance.","author":"Joanna Ruocco","tags":["detail","humor","moment"],"id":8739,"author_id":"Joanna+Ruocco"},{"text":"The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.","author":"Charles R. Swindoll","tags":["great","attention","detail "],"id":30085,"author_id":"Charles+R.+Swindoll"},{"text":"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 examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.","author":"Natalie Goldberg","tags":["care","compassion","cow","detail","examination","experience","forever","life","live","living","moment","moments","novel","paper","pen","poem","short-story","touch","write","writers","writing"],"id":49488,"author_id":"Natalie+Goldberg"},{"text":"Watch every detail that affects the accuracy of your work.","author":"Arthur C. Nielsen","tags":["detail","accuracy","watch "],"id":55387,"author_id":"Arthur+C.+Nielsen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Neal Gabler","tags":["commitment","detail","vision"],"id":64278,"author_id":"Neal+Gabler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Orhan Pamuk","tags":["affection","attention","beauty","color","compassion","detail","interest","irony","mystery"],"id":84323,"author_id":"Orhan+Pamuk"},{"text":"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.', May 10, 1886).","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["creative-process","detail","nature","show-don-t-tell","writing"],"id":114250,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["attention","attentive","aware","awareness","beautiful","beauty","beauty","care","conscious","consciousness","cry","crying","day","detail","given-day","harmony","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","life","live","lived","nature","now","pay-attention","present","rejoice","together","togetherness","true","truth","unity","universe","world"],"id":151168,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"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 human.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["creative-process","detail","nature","show-don-t-tell","writing"],"id":158403,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.","author":"Mariella Frostrup","tags":["fear","partner","detail "],"id":167340,"author_id":"Mariella+Frostrup"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}