Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our…

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

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

— Thomas Keating

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

— Gregory Rabassa

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

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

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

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

— Robert Longo

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

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

— Eliot Weinberger