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Quotes About Text

An illustration is an enlargement, and interpretation of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better. As an artist, you are always serving the words. You must never illustrate exactly what is written. You must find a space in the text so that the pictures can do the work. Then you must let the words take over where words do it best. It's a funny kind of juggling act.
~ Maurice Sendak
that part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn't obtain, how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself, what possibilities of feeling were opened up in the present tense of reading.
~ Ben Lerner
from the ancient Chinese commentators found in the Giles edition. Of these four, Giles' 1910 edition is the most scholarly and presents the reader an incredible amount of information concerning Sun Tzu's text, much more than any other translation. The Giles' edition of the ART OF WAR, as stated above, was a scholarly work. Dr. Giles was a leading sinologue at the time and an assistant in the Department
~ Sun Tzu
A work of art encountered as a work of art is an experience, not a statement or an answer to a question. Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing _in_ the world, not just a text or commentary _on_ the world.
~ Susan Sontag
Creo que lo más importante a la hora de escribir es pensar que algún lector necesitado espera con ansias ese texto. Comencé a escribir pensando en lo que quería leer. Si mantienes esa premisa, quieras o no, serás honesto.
~ Susan Sontag
Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. -William Randolph Hearst
~ Susan Wiggs
Effective Bible Teachers exude a familiarity with the text that can only come from living with it.
~ Josh Hunt
eisegetical;
~ Joshua Cohen
As Davies reads the historical evidence, the immediate purpose of the Fourth Amendment was to prohibit general warrants and their like, but "the larger purpose for which the Framers adopted the text . . . [was] to curb the exercise of discretionary authority by officers.
~ Joshua Dressler
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.
~ Joshua Foer
But the Septuagint translated ason as exeikonismenon, meaning a fetus already "fully formed.
~ Joshua Prager
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text.
~ Juana Maria Rodriguez
when it happened, but now it appeared that she'd been even younger. The faded writing would be almost indecipherable even if it had been in English. It was going to take more than her knowledge of Yiddish to make out the text. The envelope had arrived in
~ Faye Kellerman
Tanto la «intención» del autor como la impresión que el lector recibe son ambas igualmente «subjetivas» en el sentido de que no son vinculantes; más allá de ambas está lo que en la propia secuencia argumentativa del texto hay de vinculante.
~ Felipe Martínez Marzoa
and my eyes open panic-stricken on a world other than my own, because when I start reading I'm somewhere completely different, I'm in the text, it's amazing, I have to admit I've been dreaming, dreaming in a land of great beauty, I've been in the very heart of truth.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
She knows this is your hockey time, right?" "Right." "So she should know better." "It's just a text, Mo." "You bust your balls at the hospital all week," he said, with that small smile that never let you know for sure if he was kidding or not. "This is hockey time, sacred time. She should know that by now." Mo
~ Harlan Coben
Ao contrário do que dizem certos parisienses, o texto está aí não para dar prazer, mas o elevado desprazer ou prazer mais difícil que um texto menor não dará.
~ Harold Bloom
Não posso ter certeza, mas às vezes imagino se uma preferência crítica pelo contexto sobre o texto não reflete uma geração tornada impaciente com a leitura em profundidade.
~ Harold Bloom
En definitiva -así lo creo-, lo único que puedo verter en este receptáculo imperfecto que es un texto son recuerdos imperfectos, pensamientos imperfectos. (Tokio Blues. Norwegian wood - Traducción del japonés por Lourdes Porta)
~ Haruki Murakami
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
~ George Tenet
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
~ Adam D'Angelo
We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpretation - text, structure, history, canons of interpretation, precedent, and other well-established tools of the judicial craft - are prioritized, weighted, and applied.
~ Diane S. Sykes