Quotes About Interpretation

Tails often say a lot more than mere words.

Referring to my notes, I said, "When you

All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Value, like beauty, may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's nonetheless discussable and mutually appreciated.

Readers develop unique histories with the books they read. It may not be immediately apparent at the time of reading, but the person you were when you read the book, the place you were where you read the book, your state of mind while you read it, your personal situation (happy, frustrated, depressed, bored) and so on – all these factors, and others, make the simple experience of reading a book a far more complex and multi-layered affair than might be thought.

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.

Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me." "That's typical of life, isn't it?

the present is intelligible only as a commentary upon and response to the past in which the past, if necessary and if possible, is corrected and transcended

Central to these was and is the claim that it is only possible to understand the dominant moral culture of advanced modernity adequately from a standpoint external to that culture.

Tarih ne bir hapishane ne bir müze ve ne de kendi kendini kutlama vesilesi olacak bir malzemeler kümesidir." s.8

But without fallibility there is no art. And without art there is no truth.

Some people get it. Most people never will. But that's art.

Self-defence is an exceedingly elastic concept. Would you be so good as to narrow the parameters?

But one of the truly delightful things about science fiction is that it is far less about new ideas than it is about finding new ways to think about old ones.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.

As an actor, you go in your own personal life and pull from your personal life, so that's what I do.