Quotes About Interpretation

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

I remember something my mother used to say. The Devil can quote scripture

One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.

There's nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.

Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. When it comes to actually pulling this off, the writer is much more fortunate than the filmmaker, who is almost always doomed to show too much  . . . . including, in nine cases out of ten, the zipper running up the monster's back.

I pointed at Wireman's forehead. This is your brain, I said. Then I pointed at my easel. This is your brain on canvas.

That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras.

Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them.

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

people can be creul, people can be mean, what they say about us is not true it makes it there opinion, and it doesnt mean thats how the rest of the world see's it.

Everything we do means something.

Silence is a language not all people understand.

Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

One of the things I've learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them.

If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!

Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.

In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open".

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.