Quotes About Subjectivity

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

I always feel like you never know: sometimes you can put out work that you feel is really strong, and other times, you can put out work you think is less strong, and people react to it, so it's kinda like in the eye of the beholder!

I quite like Jackson Pollock, and have a real gut reaction to it, so it does whatever it does to me.

When you're so close to material, it would be as if you had come out of a bad marriage. You would be so close to it that you would be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.

For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

Mohan Lal is my favorite actor, so if I am saying that Salman has performed better, you can believe how much he has done. Salman is better looking, so that's his plus point. Lal is the more realistic actor, but Salman is a better dancer. So there are things you can't compare. Both are good in their own way.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

You can feel like, 'I look really bad', but to other people you can be really gorgeous.

I'll wear one dress and someone will be, 'That's a gorgeous dress.' But my mother will be, like, 'What were you wearing? It looked like a chicken.'

There are gray areas in everything.

There are people whose work I greatly admire who just don't write to my experience in any way.

There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.

People tend to overvalue what belongs to them relative to the value they would place on the same possession or circumstance if it belonged to someone else.

The truth is the truth whether you agree with it or not. The truth is not subject to your interpretation.