Quotes About Interpretation

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.

For a lot of readers these days, a book is something you have to agree or disagree with. But you can't agree with a novel. For my generation, it was assumed that a book is a dramatic thing, that the eye of the book is not telling you what to think.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

I'm good at reading people.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

I like albums. I like holding them, seeing what they're all about, you know? I like reading liner notes. Even if it's a CD, you're getting kind of an idea of what the band is coming from. Or what they want you to think they're coming from. I like that.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

I think I work much the same way I always have. I'm trying to interpret something emotionally visually. I'm reading the brief or article, or listening to the music, and deciding where that sends me, and what would it look like.

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.