Decades Quote by Paul Auster Download Open image “I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.” — Paul Auster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decades Done Havens Translate Young
I live in the United States for years. No one has to translate anything for me. — Raphael Assuncao Copy Share Image
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over… — John H. Sununu Copy Share Image
Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70's Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is… — John Olver Copy Share Image
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the… — Marion Brady Copy Share Image
