Whatever words the author uses will evoke a highly individualized response in the reader. A reader becomes the director of his own internal motion picture projected on the screen in his own mind. You can read, then stop to think it over. You can put the book down and start again later. The reader exercises control.
Implications are quite extensive here.
Because of their distinctive past conditionings, no two readers will read in exactly the same way, nor will they envision exactly the same qualities as they read. My green grass will not be the same as yours, and so on, with the result that there can be no genuine standardization of interpretation. And since I am male, in my early sixties and Southwest-Hispanic in culture, that carries some categorizable consequence probabilities. Moreover, whatever critical assessment you read by some literary reviewer will most probably reflect how that person has visualized the story, often within a particular school or trend of interpretation. The critic saw it in his or her own way, that needs to be taken as valid, too, even if you and I might not agree.