Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in…

I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of view, I'm…

— Uwe Boll

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but…

— Cindy Sherman

People have different interpretations of my work, and I like that flexibility and openness.

— Miru Kim

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

— Umberto Eco

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of…

— Anonymous

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

— Saint Augustine

If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

— Confucius

To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a…

— Sophocles

“Man erred in his ways in his neglect of the truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“One: Never, ever hurry. If you do something fast once, people will expect you to do it that fast every other time. Two: Never…

— H. Paul Honsinger

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

— Lev Grossman

“Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to take that…

— Madeline Sharples

The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer