“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“Now tell me what happened—in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.” — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Death is only a translation of life into another language.” — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator. — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin;… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I think translations should convey the feelings expressed in the original work. This is what I have believed in and practised. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I don't write thinking directly about what I'm feeling, usually. I just let myself write whatever comes out without it necessarily being… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
I've realized I have to be very careful in what I say. I speak my heart out. Such honesty is not appreciated… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
“The difference between a translation and an original is not of the same order as the difference between powdered and steamed coffee.” — David Bellos Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The land mass on the other side, visible to the eye as a dark sliver on the horizon, would soon acquire its… — Daniel Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“In a French accent developed through a lifetime of using English I said, 'Hello sir, I would like to row the English… — Tim Fitzhigham Copy Share Image
“And on the subject of naming animals, can I just say how happy I was to discover that the word yeti, literally… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Let not the rash marble risk garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recalling name, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
