“Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is [...] more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining in to the boat... Where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.”

- Ursula Le Guin