Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

- David Bellos

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

- David Bellos

The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in wa…

- David Bellos