Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations,… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know… — Monica Esposito Copy Share Image
I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
