Books Quote by Martin Gardner
““The rub is that any work of nonsense abounds with so many inviting symbols that you can start with any assumption you please about the author and easily build up an impressive case for it. Consider, for example, the scene in which Alice seizes the end of the White King's pencil and begins scribbling for him. In five minutes one can invent six different interpretations.””
![“Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having their essential place in the literal level of the story, operate in depth as well as on the surface, increasing the story in every direction … the truer the symbol, the…” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe7/flannery-o-connor-639_writing_symbols-are-something-the-writer-uses-si_1791562.jpg)
