Quotes About Interpretation

Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

It's amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

S ?ímkoliv, co si poÃ…â"¢ídíÅ¡, vykládá, získáÅ¡ jenom jednu vÄ›c navíc, kterou pak ztratíÅ¡.

Qué sería de Jesús si nadie hubiera escrito los Evangelios?

We don't live in the real world anymore," she said. "We live in a world of symbols.

why is it a terrible battle scene like picasso's guernica can be beautiful, while a painting of two unicorns kissing in a flower garden can look like crap. does anybody really know why they like anything?

Why is it a terrible battle scene like Picasso's Guernica can be beautiful, while a painting of two unicorns kissing in a flower garden can look like crap. Does anybody really know why they like anything?

So direct and misdirect your reader, but don't tell her the meaning of anything. Not until she gets it wrong in her head.

ÄŒemu nerozumíme, to si m?žeme vyložit jakkoli.

the remaining journalists convinced themselves that no absolute truths existed.

Every story's trying to say something. It's trying to beam an idea, a message, into the minds of the readers. In this way, every story is an argument. It's the writer making a case.

Question marks were shaped like a hook for a reason...

and she saw another bit of ink, one she didn't recognize: a sword and a hammer encircled by a snake. She didn't know what it meant, exactly, but it was probably more Nazi white-guy shit, because it was always Nazi white-guy shit.

Everything means something, but not every something matters.

2. Words Define Reality Words are like LEGO bricks: the more we add, the more we define the reality of our playset. The dog fucked the chicken tells us something. The Great Dane fucked the chicken tells us more. The Great Dane fucked the bucket of fried chicken on the roof of Old Man Dongweather's barn, barking with every thrust goes the distance and defines reality in a host of ways

Mood is painted in the margins: you create the image by negative space, dancing around it without ever saying it. 9.

This is not a book of writing advice. It's not here to help make you a better writer. Rather, it's here to help you become a better storyteller.

It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word.

Katherine Mansfield, clearly speaking personally, had remarked wryly in 1924 that "the true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone—reading between the lines—has become the secret friend of their author,"54

It's a different story depending on where you start: who's good, who's bad, what it all means. Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are. I can begin when Cassie and I were best friends; or I can begin when we weren't anymore; or I can begin at the dark end and tell it all backward.

and of course, you can't ever really know what happens to another person, or what they think happens to them, which amounts to the same thing.

but this is what I think: you only see what you expect to see. Your brain lets the rest go. Because life's tumult, with its infinite sounds and smells and signs, rushes around you like a river in flood: you can only take in, you can only grasp, so much.