Quotes About Interpretation

The monolithic problem of depression cannot be expressed with a monolithic response; depressions are contextual and must be interpreted within the contexts in which they occur.

Unusual bodies have been described throughout history as reflections of sin, as omens from the gods, as the basis for laughter or charity or punishment.

We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They're beautiful. And for everyone. That's how I want my art to be.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Art is what you get away with

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

Shy" was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. "Snotty" was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

Él no escucharía sus palabras. Dudaba también de que fuera a escuchar su silencio.

Italo Calvino quote, 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.' For I have read The Great Gatsby numerous times, and always discover new things in each reading.

You are lucky you are a writer because you will sort through this in ways other souls cannot; the bad part is you feel and see all of this in ways non-writers don't.

What's fun about homonyms is hearig a word in a sentence and suddenly realizing that it has a homonym or maybe two (or three, but that's so rare I don't often think about homonym quartets) and that you haven't thought of that homonym pair or trio before.

Jessica Ramsey sat next to me, a mystery. I kept looking at her long legs. Maybe she was a dancer or a gymnast or something. Of course, I looked at her face too. Jessica's eyes were huge and dark. Her lashes were so long I wondered if they were fake. Probably not, if her mother was anything like mine, and I decided that was a distinct possibility since Jessica wore glasses and didn't have pierced ears either.

I could tell.

Clearing the Brie from someone's arteries?" I said. I thought Seth and Mommy were going to fall over laughing. "Debris is stuff that's blown into the street. And that's what they mean by arteries — streets.

Was her "conflict" invented? Was she making an excuse so she could see Jeremy without having to admit it to us?

Scripture exists; human beings interpret it.

Does any piece of writing speak for itself? Or do we impose certain values and judgements on that text when interpreting it?

If we could popularize the understanding that all conclusions from scripture are but interpretations, then all variant readings of a holy book would become a matter of differing human perspectives.

the Bible and the Koran both contain mountains of life-destroying gibberish.

we are free to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of our lives.