Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have…

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

— Marilyn Hacker

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

— Iris Murdoch

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of…

— Helen Frankenthaler

Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity - a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor's bling and Ferragamo shoes - those were…

— Ronan Farrow

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no…

— Hunter Hayes

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether…

— Virginia Postrel

Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about…

— Mariella Frostrup

It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude…

— Marek Belka

“contextualization is inevitable. As soon as you choose a language to speak in and particular words to use within that language, the culture-laden nature…

— Timothy Keller

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Yeah, I always had the habit of translating a lot of Black Sabbath records - that's kinda like how I first learned English, translating…

— Max Cavalera

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti