History Quotes / TheLawofConservationofDetail

->''"Every character has a purpose. If not, why would you write them? Every single detail, every single word, everything in the background all serves a greater goal."''
-->-- [[spoiler:'''The Writer''']], ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''

->''"I apologize, that was a terrible scene. It's like, why was that in the movie? ''[='=]Gee, do you think it'll come back later, maybe?[='=]'' I hate it when movies do that: TV's on, talking about the new power plant... Hmm, I wonder where the big climax will happen?"''
-->-- '''[[LemonyNarrator Harry Lockhart]]''', ''Film/KissKissBangBang''

->''There's a saying, something in a movie, where you, like, [[ChekhovsGun if you show a gun... at some point, that gun has to be used.]]''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}'''

->''“Now Jesus did many things in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name.”''

-->-- WebVideo/HBomberguy, [[https://youtu.be/LkoGBOs5ecM?t=815 "Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here's Why"]]

-->-- Literature/DonQuixote

-->--''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003190 (here)]]''

-->-- [[Literature/TheFourGospels John 20:30-31]]

->''There's a saying, something in a movie, where you, like, if you show a gun... at some point, that gun has to be used.''
-->-- LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}

-->-- '''Chibi Soma''''s ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 5'' [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/gba/924452-mega-man-battle-network-5-team-protoman/faqs/34008 walkthrough]]

-> He asked if he had any money with him, to which Don Quixote replied that he had not a farthing, as in the histories of knights-errant he had never read of any of them carrying any. On this point the landlord told him he was mistaken; for, though not recorded in the histories, because in the author's opinion there was [[LampshadeHanging no need to mention anything so obvious and necessary]] as money and clean shirts, [[FridgeLogic it was not to be supposed therefore that they did not carry them]], and he might regard it as certain and established that all knights-errant (about whom there were so many full and unimpeachable books) carried well-furnished purses in case of emergency, and likewise carried shirts and a little box of ointment to cure the wounds they received.
-->-- Literature/DonQuixote

-> Do you think that simply because I don't mention something in [[Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle the book]] it doesn't happen? If that's the case, then most of my characters really need to take a [[NobodyPoops piss]].

-> Each sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action.

-> ''He asked if he had any money with him, to which Don Quixote replied that [[AvertedTrope he had not a farthing, as in the histories of knights-errant he had never read of any of them carrying any]]. [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail On this point the landlord told him he was mistaken; for, though not recorded in the histories, because in the author's opinion there was no need to mention anything so obvious and necessary as money and clean shirts,]] [[FridgeLogic it was not to be supposed therefore that they did not carry them,]] and he might regard it as certain and established that all knights-errant (about whom there were so many full and unimpeachable books) carried well-furnished purses in case of emergency, and likewise carried shirts and a little box of ointment to cure the wounds they received.''
-->-- DonQuixote.

-->-- '''Creator/KurtVonnegut'''

-->-- '''KurtVonnegut'''

->''My own pretty words aside, life is no play. [[ChekhovsGunman We meet people once]], [[SubvertedTrope and never see them again]]. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for praise. No time at which we step behind the stage, to see the actors changing their wigs, and painting their faces, and muttering their lines.''
-->-- '''[[ShakespeareInFiction William Shakespeare]]''', ''ComicBook/TheSandman''

--> ''He asked if he had any money with him, to which Don Quixote replied that [[AvertedTrope he had not a farthing, as in the histories of knights-errant he had never read of any of them carrying any]]. [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail On this point the landlord told him he was mistaken; for, though not recorded in the histories, because in the author's opinion there was no need to mention anything so obvious and necessary as money and clean shirts,]] [[FridgeLogic it was not to be supposed therefore that they did not carry them,]] and he might regard it as certain and established that all knights-errant (about whom there were so many full and unimpeachable books) carried well-furnished purses in case of emergency, and likewise carried shirts and a little box of ointment to cure the wounds they received.''

-->--''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003190]]''

-->-- ''TheOrderOfTheStick''

->''My own pretty words aside, life is no play. [[ChekhovsGunman We meet people once]], [[SubvertedTrope and never see them again]]. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for phrase. No time at which we step behind the stage, to see the actors changing their wigs, and painting their faces, and muttering their lines.''

-->--''{{Homestuck}} [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003190]]''