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"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"

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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

Imagination

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

Decision-Making

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

Lifestyle

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

Nature

"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

Positive

"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

Pleasure

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

Life

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

Time

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

Constitution

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

Business