Quotes About Interpretation

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.