Quotes About Interpretation

A writer can never have complete command or mastery over what s/he writes. Neither can a reader.

Even the most apparently simple statement is subject to fission or fissure.

Differance brings together the two notions of differing and deferring.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid?

the Messenger of God consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old'.

He'd just interpreted his brother's enthusiasm, blending his own fantasies in to add a little extra flavouring. But this new music had a spiritual thing going for it. This was his music, the sound of his soul rising up, and as he leaned forward to embrace it

A story isn't like a smoothly running engine, but is rather like a photograph. Photos can never be a perfect representation of what an eye looking at the same subject will see, partially due to the limitations of lenses and emulsions, but largely due to the conscious choice of the photographer.

Clearly, our communication skills were still troublingly nonexistent. We left the restaurant with diametrically opposed views of what had been decided.

Jennifer's smiling! She must be feeling sick or something!

You can change things by looking," Papa said. He showed me this with a coin. "Look at it this way," Papa said, showing me the round, flat side of the coin, the one with the king's head on. "Easy to see immediately what this thing is. It's a coin! No doubt about it. But look at it this way," and he moved the coin end-on, so it seemed a thin strip of grooved silver. "Not so easy now, is it? Remember, Mhairi, things don't always come with labels on.

She wanted to ask what he meant but in the game they played she lost points if she had to ask.

She said nothing, hoping her silence would goad him into explaining.

You must learn to speak those thoughts of yours sometimes, child, or those who watch-like those gesith hounds of yours-will decide for themselves what you think, who you are, whose side you are on. For there are sides. Though I don't know which is yours.

Bishop Rhiel says a book is full of secret signs that tell a story. A god's story. It sounds as though it should be interesting, but it isn't.

Her uncle saw plots under every bench but it didn't make him wrong.

It was easy to talk to Begu. Perhaps because she said such strange things, perhaps because Hild got the sense she never took people seriously.

Despite her best intentions, Hild's voice rose as a question.

Her face had the set look Marghe had learned meant she was unhappy.

She turned her head slightly, to examine me out of each eye, as though each saw a different world but only one could be trusted.

I didn't know what to make of this fey mood. He was the one who was supposed to make conversations easier.

Watch man and woman, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

Watch men and women, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.