Quotes About Interpretation

Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography.

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans.

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.

You need to understand the meaning of the dialogue to be able to convey it right. You need to know it to understand the nuances of the scene.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.