My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare. – Marcus Sakey
The soles of the best writers, a professor once told me, are worn down to holes. This is an incomplete measure, but the image of a writer grinding his or her shoes against curbs and cobblestones stuck with me. The story is always out there, the details around the corner or down the alley. – David Ebershoff
The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family. – Eminem
I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don’t know basic facts. – Norman Davies
Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It’s about the big picture. – Ed Wood
I tested the waters on producing a record, but I’m more of a creative guy. I can’t get into minute details. – Dee Snider
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
For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, ‘Flannery’ will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events. – Floyd Skloot
Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise. – Max McKeown
What makes characters real are details, and if you’re crafting a person from scratch, you’re probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, ‘Does this person bite their nails?’ – Gina Rodriguez
When I cast great actors, I try to make extraordinary people ordinary, dealing with these extremely small intimate details of interpersonal relationships against an epic backdrop. – Derek Cianfrance
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we’re outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later. – Dani Shapiro
I couldn’t resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of ‘A Discovery of Witches’ throughout the pages of the novel. – Deborah Harkness
While the story about the hunt for bin Laden has been exhaustively reported and the key sources and witnesses are in agreement about the main points of the narrative, of course, it’s still possible that we could learn new details about the story that would add to the narrative. – Peter L. Bergen
Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It’s like a magnet attracting steel filings. – Frank McCourt
I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences – by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you’ll touch people. – Mike Mills
Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details. – David Byrne
I loved all those classic figures from the ’30s and ’40s… Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too – so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent. – Grace Jones
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. – Edward Carpenter
Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you’ll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate. – Nandan Nilekani
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back. – Gloria Steinem
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
Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying. – Michael Cimino
I’ve been working on my finishing for quite some time. It’s just a question of paying attention to the minor details. – Cobi Jones
I can’t stop watching ‘Pan Am.’ When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show’s plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right. – Gayle King
I’m not such a fan of imagination. If you’re alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined. – Edmund White
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
If you write a story based on a real person, you’re trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. – Caroline B. Cooney
