Read through the most famous quotes by topic #translator
What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth? ↗
#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying. ↗
The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. ↗
#credentials #hire #impeccable #lived #means
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. ↗
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. ↗
The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language. ↗
#communicate #could #delightful #felt #go
Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. ↗
#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. ↗
#publishers #rush #translators #tread #where
