The art of translation lies less in knowing the other…

“He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it made him…

— Charles Yu

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Don't fret my dear. If art is translation of the ephemeral into observable form, then always remember that it is the translationn that is…

— Jomny Sun

“This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.”

— Joan Barfoot

“[Original text in French] Giovanni n'avait pas menti. Sagra était une merveille baroque, une collision improbable et inquiétante de la nature et de l'art.…

— Julien Gracq

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.

— Denis Donoghue

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can…

— Juliana Hatfield

“He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.”

— Karen Armstrong

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

— Melina Marchetta

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

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