Quotes About Perspective

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.

It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

One of the most interesting findings in modern psychology is that the way people perceive and interpret things affects how they feel about them. As the old saying goes, there are two sides to every story. Now, modern science tells us that the side people see affects what they think, how they feel, and ways they behave.

Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.

And I call it like I see it and my glasses on. But most of yall dont get the picture less the flash is on.

I call ya how I see ya.

I should cherish life, but this aint paradise.

Women's accounts of outdoor adventures repeatedly show how men and women can be in the same place while still in different worlds.

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

No hay literatura femenina. Hay hombres y mujeres que escriben".

I guess since the groin is the center of a guy's world, he rarely guesses it isn't the center of yours.

The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

With twenty-twenty hindsight I could solve every fucking problem, couldn't I?

Did she not get it? He'd done everything but hit her on the head and drag her into a cave.

Meine Wurst!" Better your sausage than your life, man!

So she settled for the truth. "I think you a man." "Is that an insult?" "No." Anything male is dragged around by its breeches, and she holds the string attached to them.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I was so often silent angry with Hammett for making the situation hard on me, not knowing then that the dying do not, should not, be asked to think about anything but their own minute of running time.

Grief, I began to see, is gratitude turned inside out.

It's strange, to not be the youngest kind of adult anymore