Tim Parks Quotes

• Italy is not a country for beginners.

  Tim Parks

  Country, Beginners

  Tim Parks (2014). “Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

  6 Copiar cita

• With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

  Tim Parks

  Book, Different, Best Experiences

  Tim Parks (2012). “Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing”, p.13, Rodale

  6 Copiar cita

• Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it.' And even 'bullshit.'

  Tim Parks

  Creer, Escribir, Manos

  6 Copiar cita

• More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don't decry it or criticize it - it's just a fact.

  Tim Parks

  Community, Use, Facts

  Fuente: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

  6 Copiar cita

• Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.

  Tim Parks

  Groups, Produce, Understood

  Fuente: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

  4 Copiar cita

• Si quieres atraer a personas de diferentes lenguas y culturas, tienes que avanzar hacia tropos que sean universalmente reconocidos. Los juegos, las referencias, las sutilezas que sólo funcionan en tu idioma apenas sirven.

  Tim Parks

  Moving, Games, People

  Fuente: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Roberto Calasso

Italo Calvino

Antonio Tabucchi

Nicolás Maquiavelo

Alberto Moravia

Frances Mayes

Gordon Parks

Girolamo Savonarola