It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators…

“When the Greek translation of the Pentateuch was made, /Ģ/ was still a distinct phoneme, but when the remaining books were translated, it may…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The literal Greek translation is “school for naked exercise.” Which made toweling off the stationary bike even more important.”

— A.J. Jacobs

“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they could not…

— Alice Hoffman

“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.”

— Kevin Kelly

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

— Penelope Lively

Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people read Greek…

— Gao Xingjian

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

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

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

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

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

— Alexander Pushkin

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

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

— Gregory Rabassa

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

— Idra Novey