Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not…

“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?”

— Nataly Kelly

“Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.”

— Nataly Kelly

“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.”

— Nataly Kelly

“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.”

— Nataly Kelly

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”

— Nataly Kelly

“Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.”

— Nataly Kelly

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

— Kató Lomb

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you,…

— Mary Jane Ward

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the…

— Charlotte Ritchie

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

“Art educates. That's why writers must know life. . .If the writer knows life, his work is often progressive, even though his own consciousness…

— slawomir mrozek

Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in…

— George Saunders

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize…

— Therese Fowler

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

— Charles R. Jackson