Quotes About Meaning

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

Learn to be good for something.

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

You do have the idea of being 'just good friends?'" He gave her a sideways look. "For so high and honorable an estate," Roshaun said, " 'just' seems a poor modifier to choose.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

If the words make sense on paper, and make me feel good, and I feel like it will connect, that's all I'm worried about it.

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I don't think good films have messages.

To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.

If it's good art, it's good.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.