Things can be translated, but they become different.

There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of tenses, which…

— Amos Oz

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

— Franz Kline

“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything…

— Neal Stephenson

Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and…

— Deborah Smith

“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is not, of…

— Michael Cunningham

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much…

— Idra Novey

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

— Robert Lane Greene

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately,…

— Salman Rushdie

Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation.…

— Adam Morris

I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do this. You…

— Amos Oz

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. The very same book, even if it is translated very…

— Amos Oz

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five…

— Amos Oz

“If i live on longer, shall i again, i wonder, yearn for these days ? The world that i once saw as bitter, now,…

— pictures of the heart Fujiwara no Kiyosuke