Quotes About Interpretation

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid

Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.

For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

Synesthesia has interested me for a long time, both as a literary device and as a puncturing of the membranes that organize how the world comes into someone's head.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.