Specificity Quotes
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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
It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.
— Kevin Rudd
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
Never expect, never assume, never ask, and never demand. Just let it be. Because if it is meant to be, it will happen, the way you want things to be
— Un Known
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