Gayle Forman Quotes

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.

You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.

Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts.

What I need to address are the situations when people are taking it upon themselves to think for me, make assumptions, or interpret things as if they are me. Last time I checked, my head was still attached to my body, so I'm the only one who knows exactly what I'm feeling, and that is not what I or the fans have been reading.

I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's what I love about playing the character. People are so quick to draw conclusions about who he is. The whole thing about Loki is that he's dancing on this liminal line between redemption and destruction. Just be very careful about drawing conclusions based on what you see.

Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.

By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.