"Moby Dick stands as a testament to how the true meaning of the greatest works of fiction are not found in a rote recitation of their stories."
"Time travel for George R Martin is less like the terminator and back to the future and more like groundhog's day."
"The show strips away Bob Haney's over-the-top heroics and desaturates Morrison's high-concept psychedelics to form a show that's more grounded."
"I really, really like how it's becoming a lot more understandable. I don't know when I read Fire and Blood, Otto Hightower just comes off as ambitious, power-hungry."
"The living must oppose the dead; the only thing we should fight."
"I think if they made something that had more to do with the book than a remake of that Verhoeven movie, then it could be really interesting."
"People have often argued that the world of Middle Earth created by Tolkien is a blank canvas for any political group."
"The scene actually feels even gayer in the book."
"The author is dead insofar as she's not the only person who gets to decide how her work still gets interpreted."
"But perhaps disagreements about the tales are beside the point."
"Religion twists everything, making good appear evil and vice versa."
"Shimamura will see a flash of color and it will illuminate him."
"For every [__] that think Hermione should be black, we are now gonna have the muggleborn who gets called mudblood repeatedly be black."
"We have culturally failed Lolita over and over again for the same reasons Dolores Hayes was failed."
"To Dante, the underworld isn’t something that you can just pop into and out of, because the underworld, ie: death, IE: Exile, is a much more permanent deal that he needed to come to terms with."
"Division of interpretations when it comes to Midsummer's ending."
"Most people misinterpret Gatsby... has the slightest idea what the book was about."
"I'm the lone person who's like, yeah, I think that's like, whether or not it makes logical sense with the rules set forth, I'm sure more well thought out in the books or whatever. I don't know, I like Bran."
"Jaime Lannister is the human personification of Game of Thrones."
"Was Darla's story arc in Shazam meant to be symbolic? No. Can it be interpreted that way? Well, that's up to you."
"These are not conservative novels; these are novels written by a novelist who's a conservative."
"I cannot be convinced anymore that it's just a coincidence that it's Frodo and his three buddies that sign up for this great adventure and that it was Tolkien and his three best friends who signed up for World War one."
"I think the Lord of the Rings is [Tolkien's] attempt to give his dead friends only one of those three kids made it back and I think the one that did and Tolkien were both deeply affected by what they did and what they saw there."
"Part of Scott's genius... reinvented a notion of Scottishness."
"Gabby's book is in no way a parody, and nothing about it says it's parodying Shel Silverstein."
"Every book is a self-help book if you read it looking at it from a different perspective."
"Hodor isn't just holding a literal door, he's holding a door open to the past."
"I think the film captured the essence of the book."
"The takeaway that I got from that book was that there's this meta intelligence."
"The tale is not really about power and dominion; that only sets the wheels going. It is about death and the desire for deathlessness."
"The Valonqar doesn’t need to be Jaime or Tyrion."
"Zaraki becomes a monster, the literal portrayal of how his enemies see him continuously throughout the series."
"I read it a bit as a kind of a message that transcends time,".
"Regarding the gods, the books won't give us direct evidence of the gods. George R.R. Martin has said that we will not see the gods in his stories."
"What does literature mean rather than just reading something and checking it off and saying, 'Hey, I read this,' okay, I think it's really important to say, 'How does this attack me or help me understand society in general?'"
"You call it 'The Return of the Gods,' which some Christian readers might misunderstand or even find objectionable. Explain where you're headed with that."
"Essentially, literary interpretation asks: How did Moses intend to impact his original Israelite audience as he wrote the Pentateuch?"
"Texts don't compel readings, they enable them."
"What is it to read? That is essentially how Althusser frames this book in the very first pages of Reading Capital."
"People want to 1984 if they want imagine a book to end in a different way miss the point of the book."
"It's not like there's anything particularly difficult to understand about it, but if you're trying to read it like a novel, that lens is not going to be very compatible with most of what's actually presented."
"I'm sure there are people who have much more interesting things to say about my books than me."
"What happened and what is the connection between what happened and the way the biblical authors wrote the story, this is where the historical study and the literary study of the Bible come together."
"What is William Shakespeare saying about love in Romeo and Juliet?"
"Paradise Regained... poetically present the devil's attempted temptation of Jesus Christ."