Quotes About Interpretation

I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Language is the dress of thought.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Hear the meaning within the word.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.