Quotes by Translate It is Allah's word just as it is in the Koran. We are also not allowed to translate it. It is unimportant whether what it says is well received or not. We are not allowed to question even a single word. Abdul Sattar Abu Risha translate single-word wells I feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself. Achy Obejas possessive translate writing The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers. Strength and power in fiction is being able to resist these intoxicating voices, recognizing that they are the signatures of other writers and not one's own. Adam Morris intense translate reading Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing. Aimee Mann translate perspective lost I think that physical actions are always hard to describe, to translate. Ann Goldstein translate action thinking It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard. Ann Goldstein standards translate hardest I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings. Ariel Rechtshaid i-realized translate ideas I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over. Ben Stiller translate comedy thinking Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action. Beth Comstock translate action jobs I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right, you just, in an organic way, translate your ideas into those templates. That's the way I perceive the process happening. Bob Odenkirk translate perceive brain Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. C. S. Lewis translate understood tests It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S. Charlie Brooker translate comedy interesting When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one. Dana Scott translate language speak When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well. Daniel Kehlmann translate wells dialogue With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why. David Byrne translate music knows Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good. Etgar Keret ninja translate funny To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate. George Steiner decipher significance translate As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. Horace translate take-care care 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 into mine. Idra Novey impulse translate language Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word. Janeane Garofalo translate comedy printed-word 123»