“Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.” ThinkingMeanDoeRememberMemoriesEmotionHappenedDetailsCharacteristicsRemember Something Author:Elizabeth Loftus
“I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.” IfsWayImportantFeelingsEmotionOriginalsImportant ThingsDetailsTranslationsCapturedPublication Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!” KnowsWayWritingPersonsDoneMomentsTruthLyingDesireSpeakDealsEmotionFictionEventsDetailsLengthPeculiarPacksInventingFiction WritersDevious Book:The Left Hand of Darkness Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“It is easier to analyze a work in its form, in its evolution, than simply to love it with all the living forces of our heart. It is easier to define its peculiarities and its details than to draw out of it its emotion, its thought.” HeartFormForceEmotionEvolutionEasierDrawsDetails Author:Nadia Boulanger
“[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.” WayRealLightEyeEmotionStudyDetailsShootingIrisesReal Eyes Author:Peter Jackson
“Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.” LittlesBodyLife IsLanguageInterestingEmotionEmotionalDetailsMost InterestingInteresting ThingsBody Language Author:David Attenborough
“Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.” PeopleIfsMayDoeWishLosesMemoriesEmotionEdgesDetailsAcidOutlinesBlur Book:Mosaic Source: Mosaic
“The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.” ArtImportantArtistCertainOrderEmotionQualitySacrificeIllusionAimDetailsPoeticInferiors Author:Gustave Flaubert
“Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.” MindFirstsHumansLongPainLossRaceEmotionConsciousnessDetailsCrowdsHuman RaceTragicDaily LifeLastingThrustRecollectionPiercingsTragic Loss Author:Wallis Simpson
“In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.” EmotionDetailsNuance Author:Michael Haneke
“I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in music. Im not really the kind of person to get too bogged down in the details. I think that takes away from the emotion and the vibe of what youre doing.” ThinkingKindPersonsStuffEmotionDetailsSpontaneous Author:Chris Robinson
“In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying in the heat of your own emotions. You are offering up some good solid bread for the hungry.” WorldWritingFacesPoliticalEmotionDetailsHungryBreadHeatStayingOffering Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.” LongStoriesFeelingsEmotionDetailsHonestlyClaritySufficientSentimental Author:Charles Baxter
“I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.” IdeasPlayProcessEmotionParticularPerformancesDetailsHidingThoughts And EmotionsHiding Things Author:Sue Tompkins
“So you have it, you awaken from it and you can recall, in detail, what just happened, that's a nightmare. So it's very different from a dream where you generally don't wake up from it and you don't have this dysphoric emotion.” DifferentDreamEmotionHappenedWake UpDetailsNightmareRecalls Author:Shelby Harris