Act Quote by Ken Liu Download Open image “Translation is an act of recreation.” — Ken Liu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Act Recreation Translation
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of… — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.” — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
People who are ambitious - politicians who crave power - think that they're in control of it, but at some point, the movement that… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“I can only wish that someday you’ll also be pestered by a student as persistent to learn what you do not wish to teach.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK,… — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
I always advise people not to act upon the advice that I give them. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act.… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
