Sally Quinn Quotes

We all look at the same object in different ways.

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

I know that people have different ways to see me but I'm used to it.

The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody on their own journey - because one song might mean something to me, that means something completely different to someone else.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

All experience is subjective.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.

There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

Love meant different things to different people.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

The only way I'm going to be able to really, truly live a moment is if it actually means something to me.