"All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential idea or story to an audience that knows very little about it, and that requires translation. To do this successfully, the writer must filter the idea through the prism of his eye, and his mind, and his writing style."

-- Ilan Stavans

#Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.”
“The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.”
“Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.”
“No atheist says there is no god!”
“Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit." Yuki: "Thank you. So much.”
“One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.”
“Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.”
“The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.3692, Dell

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