Specificity Quotes
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Specificity Quotes & Sayings
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Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.
— Jonathan Culler
Specificity is the soul of narrative.
— John Hodgman
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.
— Stephen Richards
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
— Uta Barth
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
— Gail Caldwell
Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after.
— Robert Jordan
The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
— N.D. Wilson
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
— Walter Mosley
What art does is coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous
— Jeanette Winterson
I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
— Virgil Thomson
What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
As a father has pity on his children, so has the Lord had pity on us; because He is good, because His mercy endures forever.
— Peter J. Arnoudt
Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.
— John Magaro
I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.
— George Saunders
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
— Timothy Keller
The Universe responds to specificity.
— Romany Malco
It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
