Quotes About Meaning

I'm not interested in entertainment.

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.

I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.

I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.

I'm not interested in the what-do-you-do-for-a-living questions.

Every note is a lifetime for itself.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.

I have a fondness for words. On that note, I don't consider my lyrics to be all that great. I like to call myself a supplier of words rather than a lyricist.

You don't need to be a fan of wars or militarism to note that heroic action - whether being prepared to be jailed as a conscientious objector or putting your life on the line by joining the resistance - creates a sense of meaning when society faces a huge challenge.

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

The right notes mean more than 1,000 mph arpeggios.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

What I noticed is that the lens from which people want to look at 'Minari' is just from that Asian-American angle. And I think that can end up being very frustrating. Because the craft of the film, and this film itself, is meant to embody a lot of different things.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Some jobs you do because they pay the bills. Other jobs nourish the soul.

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a loss of great magnitude the way either a long story or a novel can.

I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.