“When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality of our interpretations. A lucid reading of our acts and our desires helps us to avoid tumbling into a frustrating gap between what we expect and what others expect. (“Alors, tout a basculé”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You will never say goodbye to the past, until you understand why the flashbacks haunt you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feelings, the actor’s craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectators, and not life, that art really mirrors.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“That is the thing about films. They don't change. You change. The immutability of the film (or a book or a painting or a piece of music) is something to measure yourself against. That is one of the things a great work of art does. It stays there waiting for you to come back to it, and it shows you who you are now, each time a little different.”
― Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others

“The framing of women’s abuse narratives as quasi-legal testimony encourages the public, as interpreters, to take the stance of cross-examiners who categorize forgetting as memory failure and insist on completeness and consistency of memory detail through all repeated tellings. The condensed, summarized, or fragmentary nature of abuse memories will rarely withstand this aggressive testing. Few people’s memories can.”
― Sue Campbell, Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars

“Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again.”
― Duncan McNaughton, Tiny Windows

“Can you hear my words or just your version of them?”
― Hadinet Tekie

“Interpretations were not easy to make if you wanted them to correspond with the truth.”
― Lena Andersson, Utan personligt ansvar

“I have read the Bible, it has a lot of different interpretations. It is a book of codes.”
― Steven Magee

“Interpretations are multidimensional. You can discover many tunnels, paths and worlds in a writer’s realms.”
― Reena Doss, The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end

“The grand, tarnished panorama of History amounts, as I see it, to a flow of interpretations, a confused consensus of unreliable eyewitness accounts. The novelist is all of us, and we narrate whenever we see, because seeing is complex like everything.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“In an absolute vacuum, no space and time exist as actualities except as potential. If there is no world or universe, there is no space and time in our interpretation of these words and concepts. But, if there is no space, there is no world and no time.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It's the experience itself and how we choose to experience this life that matters.”
― Julieanne O'Connor