I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations. — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is… — Michael Cunningham 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
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is ostensibly an autobiography but in truth it is much more than that. In this remarkably fine new… — Ronald Harwood 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
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are certain writers I can't read when I'm trying to write because their voices are so distinct. Cormac McCarthy, he's the… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These days, the FBIS service regularly includes translations from many terrorist or terrorist-linked websites and chat forums. They provide an unprecedented inside… — Evan Kohlmann Copy Share Image
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil. — Hayim Nahman Bialik Copy Share Image
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.” — Henry Gratton Doyle Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
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