Alexander Kluge

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

German Director

Richard K. Morgan

I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.

English Author

K. D. Lang

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

Canadian Musician

Arthur Penn

I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.

American Director

Barbara Kruger

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

American Artist

Mohsin Hamid

Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

Pakistani Writer

Tom Stoppard

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

English Dramatist

Norman McLaren

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Scottish Artist

David Foster Wallace

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

American Writer

Mitch Kapor

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

American Businessman

Mostly used in academic contexts, especially when analyzing texts like books or articles.

Academic Usage

Often refers to quoting from a text to support an argument or point.

Evidence Support

Used when discussing detailed reviews or critiques of texts, especially in literature.

Literary Examination

Highlights interpretation of a text's meaning or underlying messages.

Interpretive Focus

In computing, refers to the words themselves rather than visual presentation like fonts or graphics.

Beyond Visuals

Related to handling text in programming or software, separate from numerical or multimedia data.

Data Processing

Used in computing to describe operations on text, such as searching or organizing content.

Information Retrieval

 What about the future? There's so much of the past, and so few people with the skills to rescue it before these objects disappear forever. That's why I have begun to teach this new hybrid discipline that I call "textual science."

How I'm discovering the...

 amount of textual information around us billboards street names newspapers books products on various surfaces and material then crossing the street catching a bus purchasing a product and

Textual