Karen Joy Fowler Quotes

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.

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

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.