Quotes About Interpretation

Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, totally passive aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say.

The art of fiction is to present reality as though it's unreality." She addresses the whole room. "Be artful. Use disguises.

OK, I have to make sure we're on the same page here. Because I might mean one thing and she might mean, intending to start a Cordon Bleu course when I get back to England.

I'm sorry, says Linus. Don't be sorry, I say, almost aggressively. You didn't say anything. Which is true. He didn't say anything. He stopped mid-sentence. Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, partially aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say. Which they then deny.

They talk about body language, as if we all speak it the same. But everyone has their own dialect.

To me, excessive silence seems to bode as ill as too much shouting.

Thus (through the eyes of my young acolyte, Who sees for me, that I may see for others) I read the signs of failure in my quest.

The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

What makes you good looking is how you are expressing yourself and that comes from how you are interpreting life.

When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.