So many people consider their work a daily punishment…

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say…

— Lydia Davis

The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning,…

— Kathleen Kennedy

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but…

— Gregory Rabassa

“So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together. It is…

— Meg Rosoff

“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.”

— Nataly Kelly

“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to…

— Elena Mauli Shapiro

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

— William Zinsser

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to…

— Lydia Davis

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

— Alexander Pushkin

“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly…

— Eugene A. Nida

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

— Gregory Rabassa

I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of…

— Ann Goldstein

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

“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