The translator constantly learns new things about himself. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people… — Vicky Beeching 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
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“at the Catholic DePaul University, Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault were faithful translators as well as friends.” — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine 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
“Most translators, even if they work 40 hours a week or more, live a very self-directed lifestyle and can tailor their work… — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he… — Heinrich Boll Copy Share Image
These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible… — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
“Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in… — Lynne Bowker Copy Share Image
I traveled the world ten times over doing something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I found myself in… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
“Kitty drove to the vacation park coffeehouse for the second time that day and opened her laptop to search for Russian to… — Gill Paul Copy Share Image
“In antiquity , for instance, one of the dominant images of the translators was that of a builder: his (usually it was… — Andrew Chesterman Copy Share Image
The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
The impresario functions as a bridge and a translator. He or she is a bridge between the creative point of view -… — John Kao Copy Share Image
There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation. — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
