Quotes About Interpretation

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she writes about it.

One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.

The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.

I'm one of those people who writes out words. All of my text messages? You can read them. Everyone would know what I'm trying to say. My sister will say 'BTW.' Do you mean 'by the way'? Is that what you're trying to say?

I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of them writes it and then has to explain it to the other, or maybe the director sees it in a way the writer doesn't want it.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Choreography is writing on your feet.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

Chopin's theme, a simple descending descant the first time round, articulated itself in the repeat with nuanced embellishment. It was music remembering itself. It meant something different, something more, to hear those simple phrases repeated so soon, qualified by chromatic variations. Clarifications. Not redundancy, but a hypothesis about how consolation works. A second chance at getting it. A second chance at life.