Margaret Millar Quotes

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

I often find that people's reactions to the show say way more about them than they do about the show itself. I think that's because a lot of it happens between the lines.

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

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.