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Reader Quotes by Lawrence Venuti
- Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an…
- General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many…
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- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman
- I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so… — Stephenie Meyer
- One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
- Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks