Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

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)

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!, May 10, 1886)

Beware the person who won't be bothered with details.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

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.

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal

Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission

To bring your dreams into reality, write down all details of your process from A-Z

Work out the details in achieving your dreams

The deeper we dig into our field the more we know about its details

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provokes it.

We think in generalities, but we live in details.

There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.

One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.