(132 quotes found)
“To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.”
Henry James
“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical”
William Shenstone
“The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
Walter Benjamin
“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
Umberto Eco
“A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“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
“What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?”
Antonin Scalia
“What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.”
Wallace Stevens
“If I am going to be a writer, earning a living in the era of digital text, I need to understand where the opportunities are. They won't disappear, they'll just be different, and need to be recognised. In the last days of Vaudeville Theatre, they sued Marconi because radio was killing Vaudeville, where you had to pay to go into a relatively small room to listen to music and voice. But it didn't kill music, the outcome was a thousand times more music, making a thousand times more money, reaching a thousand times more people. But in the short term, there was panic. If digital text will result in hundreds more authors, with hundreds more novels, I need to be in the middle of eBooks. I need to be heavily engaged. All those people downloading my text is good news.”
Cory Doctorow
