Quotes About Interpretation Of Literature

#1. That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

Sara Raasch

#2. Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

William K. Wimsatt

#3. Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Robert Bringhurst

#4. We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

Jeff Galloway

#5. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our stead.

George R R Martin

#6. When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

Don DeLillo

#7. That's the beauty and the curse of the 'engrafted word'... it all comes down to interpretation.

Amy Marie

#8. A whole new world is a dazzling place

Walt Disney Company

#9. Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity ... is to an incalculable extent a history of error.

Frank Kermode

#11. Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

Aleksandar Hemon

#12. People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

Mike Johanns

#13. I know how to do this, I thought. I am good, at least, at this. I know all the steps to this dance

Helen Macdonald

#14. But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics.

Vincent Cheung

#15. When it's over no one cares what you did

R.Gayan Priyankara

#16. Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.

Ben Abix

#17. While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

Jean Kerr

#18. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.

Parul Wadhwa

#19. Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

Dejan Stojanovic

#20. Anything we have not had to decipher, to bring to light by our own effort, anything which was already clearly visible, is not our own.

Marcel Proust

#21. We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

Colin Mochrie