Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its…

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

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

— Ernst Haas

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

— Thomas Keating

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

— Gregory Rabassa

Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation.…

— Adam Morris

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

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

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

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

— Eliot Weinberger