I believe every translation is a process in which…

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can…

— Marie Clay

I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken…

— Blase J. Cupich

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

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the…

— Edmund White

“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with my family,…

— Anonymous

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”

— Cervantes

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

— David Bellos

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

— Richard M. Weaver

If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation.

— Roddy Piper