Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

So the question really is, Why doesn't that pain make you say, I won't do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don't.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.