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
“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
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
Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was… — Ian Holm Copy Share Image
When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but… — Eugene A. Nida Copy Share Image
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think… — Per Petterson 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
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
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
“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?” — Nataly Kelly 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
There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Like 'Lost in Translation,' I worked on an advertisement where a Hollywood star was doing a commercial just for Japan. The star… — Michael Gracey Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Meaning can be usually be approximated, but often by sacrificing style. When I review my translations into Spanish, that's what I'm most… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“The translator, no matter how true he thinks he's staying to the text, still brings his own life experiences and opinions to… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“This is echoed by King-scott (1996, 295), who warns that unless technology-related issues are integrated into translator-training programmes, there is a real… — Lynne Bowker Copy Share Image
“I wrote Vis consilii epers mole ruit sua on the front of the first tag, and on the inside I put the… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do… — Amos Oz 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
In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not… — Mona Baker Copy Share Image
