Books Quote by Stephen King

This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a…

— Gaston Bachelard

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

— Stephen King

“I keep the description basic as it allows you to mould the story around your life.”

— Airambooksie

“A writer's task is to interpret his world as he sees it, if not to make it understood, at least to make it understandable.”

— Leonard Walker

“Descriptive writing is more than visual; it employs all the senses.”

— Cheryl St.John

If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to…

— Judith Thurman

“People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.”

— Salomon Grimberg

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

“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

There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not…

— Jim Lee

“Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. After all, the true seeing is within”

— George Eliot

“A vision is best presented as a story that people can relate to.”

— Jim Kerr