Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?" They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.
As far as people communicating with each other well I think that listening is important. You know really trying to read between the lines of what some body is saying and trying to read their mind a little bit where there at because most people don't really say what they're feeling. Which is the bones of great literature.
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.
Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.
The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.
