“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.” RealCharacterActorsBlackWhiteRolesPagesScriptsUnexpectedBlack And WhiteTranslateReal CharacterSomething Unexpected Author:Joe Johnston
“When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.” PeopleWritingFirstsWellsMayTwoBookWould BeCertainProcessParentPerfectGrowingStagePagesThirdsExplorationTranslateGrowing OldBeing A ParentGrowing Older Author:Paul Reiser
“[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.” SocialResultsPagesTranslateImpressiveStraightforwardSocial SystemsVery Impressive Book:The Sociological Imagination Source: The Sociological Imagination
“One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.” FirstsTwoEndsWould BeNextLanguageRoomsStudentsPagesMy FavoriteTricksVersionsCompareTranslateSurvivedThe Next OneForeign Language Author:Gregory Rabassa
“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.” LooksMayBookTechnologyPagesComplexesOddTranslateThursday Next Book:The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel Source: The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel
“I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.” HomeDreamHandsKidsSportsRoomsFantasyFeetPlanetsPagesTownsDancingVery GoodStuckTranslatePlumbingAfterthoughtCarpentry Book:The Man on the Ceiling Source: The Man on the Ceiling