Quotes About Interpretation

qué falso puede ser el más profundo de todos los libros cuando se pretende aplicarlo a la vida.

El que fa la literatura és el mayeix que un llumí enmig d'un camp en plena nit. Un llumí amb prou feines il·lumina, però ens permet veure quanta foscor hi ha al voltant.

INTERVIEWER Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.

Adoro los silencios incómodos, ¿usted no, doctor? Todo lo que implican. Llenan el vacío con la fuerza de las palabras no dichas. Porque lo que no se dice a veces es más inquietante.

Walpole, that life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.

They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect's antenna.

All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers' existence during the time the fiction was written.

The waitress was a distracted-looking woman of indeterminate ancestry, acne scars sprinkled across her cheekbones, and she poured his coffee and took his order without actually indicating she understood English. Like the whole operation could be basically phonetic, he thought, and she'd have learned the sound of "two eggs over easy" and the rest. Hear it, translate it into whatever she wrote in, then give it to the cook.

Proust cookies. It was literally all he knew of Proust, though he'd once had to listen to someone's lengthy argument that Proust had either described madeleines incorrectly or been describing something else entirely.

Okay, she said. What are the nodal points? Laney looked at the bubbles on the surface of his beer. It's like seeing things in clouds, Laney said. Except the things you see are really there.

he was more than a dolphin, but from another dolphin's point of view he might have seemed like something less.

Apophenia, Win had declared it, after due consideration and in his careful way: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things.

He disliked the narrative aspects of history, particularly that part of it. People were so boringly deformed by it, like Ash, or else, like Lev, scarcely aware of it.

But I suppose that is the way of an artiste, no? You needed this world built for you, this beach, this place. To die.

But the mind had its own ideas, and Kihn's opinion of what I was already thinking of as my "sighting" rattled endlessly, through my head in a tight, lopsided orbit. Semiotic ghosts.

her gaze had tracked the brass plaque automatically—"La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it.

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.