Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Don't fret my dear. If art is translation of the ephemeral into observable form, then always remember that it is the translationn… — Jomny Sun Copy Share Image
“However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over… — Amara Lakhous Copy Share Image
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!” — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark) — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The work of the authors of the LXX was not only a translation, it was also a revised version. In all such… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new… — George Strait Copy Share Image
Even though I believe a superlative translation can achieve timelessness, that doesn't mean I think other translators shouldn't attempt other versions. The… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.” — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think… — Stromae Copy Share Image
“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical… — Sofia Boutella Copy Share Image
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“However, this translation is, in the words of Dr. Giles, "excessively bad." He goes further in this criticism: "It is not merely… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
