Books Quote by Paul Auster Download Open image ““Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.”” — Paul Auster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“I show that I have understood a writer only when I can act in his spirit, when, without constricting his individuality, I can translate… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
“A shadow charmer enjoys brotherhood with the creatures of the night. His emotions cannot be manipulated. Nothing escapes his gaze. He hears and comprehends… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly… — Eugene A. Nida Copy Share Image
“The translator, we should know, is a writer too. As a matter of fact, he could be called the ideal writer because all he… — Gregory Rabassa 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
