Text Analysis Quotes

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new.

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

Search is an unsolved problem.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well.

Text without context is pretext.

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

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.

I do a lot of readings.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.