Jojo Moyes Quotes

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

If we are to look only at the words, then we inquire, not what this man meant, but what those words would mean in the mouth of a normal speaker.

She meant it as a compliment.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

Translation is the art of failure.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

People will read into what you say no matter what, so it doesn't matter to me.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.