Demands Quote by W. G. Sebald Download Open image “The writing I do makes great demands on translators.” — W. G. Sebald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Demands Great Makes Writing
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation. — Adam Morris 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
“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
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an… — Adam Morris 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
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate… — Mona Baker Copy Share Image
“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea… — Amara Lakhous Copy Share Image
It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people. — Haruki Murakami 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
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“The vision of life is not a "discovery"; it's a "work" and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important. — Tony Romo Copy Share Image
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks.… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the… — Gautam Gambhir Copy Share Image
My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
On a Bioware game, if I say anything that's not on the page, It would create a bug in the system, and it would… — Jennifer Hale Copy Share Image
I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
