The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator…

“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

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

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

“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Idra Novey

I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not…

— Mitchell Baker

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

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

— Carlos Ruiz

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I…

— Kim Hunter

“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in…

— Pablo Neruda

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 novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

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