English writing Quote by Simone Muench

“Poets loved the full moon; they wrote thousands of poems about it, but it was the new moon that Veronika loved best because there…

— Paulo Coelho

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for…

— Haruki Murakami

“the best of luck in improving their English writing skills. However, in saying that, it's not up to luck so much as dedication, hard…

— Stephen E. Dew

In Bulgarian I am much more flowery, the sentences are wilder. In English out of necessity I try to be clear and disciplined. I…

— Miroslav Penkov

If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of…

— Rudolf Flesch

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have…

— Louis Begley

“I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings , and I was always on my guard if…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There are two main traditions of English writing: the one of perfect liberty, that of Chaucer and Shakespeare, completely outspoken, with a certain liking…

— Frank Harris

Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12…

— Gustavo Santaolalla