Quotes About Interpretation

I've always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%. There's no way I can control the story you tell yourself from my book. Your own experiences, preferences, prejudices, mood at the moment, current events in your life, needs and wants influence how you read my every word.

I told everyone you didn't go poof, but they just looked at me funny," said Maddie. Cedar shook her head. "You said, 'Tiny crow crowned unconfused with a cloud.'

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

Jane caught sight of a very striking Colonel Andrews who, now that she watched him dance, might just be gay.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Did she imagine the look of disappointment which flickered across Luciana's face, or did she just imagine it?

Shaun Considine

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

That they would publish for adults and which would find currency with children.

I can't write myself except through reading others' words.

dark. Basically, the more you're aware of what you want these images to convey, the richer the images are going to be.

What do humans go to art for, but to locate within themselves that inward-turning eye, which breathes significance into all of existence-for what is art but the act of infusing matter with the breath of God?

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it

Handwriting

Handwriting communicates

Men always say the most important thing in a woman is a sense of humor. You know what that means? He's looking for someone to laugh at his jokes.

How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.

They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, "the man who freed the slaves." He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

Active listening consists of paraphrasing what the other person said, in your own words, in order to show them what you understood.

You pay attention to how people answer, instead of what they say.

By deleting, distorting and generalizing, we inhabit our perceptions and interpretations of Reality

In other words, there could be a lot of reasons why people decided to save some things and why they threw others away - reasons that might not make any sense until you dug much deeper.