All writing is an act of translation.

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

— Roddy Piper

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

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

— David Bellos

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

— Cervantes

“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

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

— Benedetto Croce

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

“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

'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

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

— Robert Longo

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

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been…

— Katie Kitamura

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

— Rumi

In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a…

— Andrew Ng