Famous quotes containing the words floating, point and/or interpretive:
“Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.”
—Italo Calvino (19231985)
“There comes a point in many peoples lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.”
—Brian Moore (b. 1921)
“The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
—Paul De Man (19191983)
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