Difficult task Quote by Henry James

“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.”

— John Sutherland

“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.”

— Chinua Achebe

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would…

— Dean Wesley Smith

“The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.”

— Henry David Thoreau

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak

“There is nothing that requires more precision, and purity of expression, than to write in a familiar style,' as the great English essayist William…

— Matt Weiland

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Leonard Bernstein

“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“T. S. Eliot and Jean-Paul Sartre, dissimilar enough as thinkers, both tend to undervalue prose and to deny it any imaginative function. Poetry is…

— Iris Murdoch

“English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan