To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties". — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans. — Zakes Mda Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese” — Fernando Sabino Copy Share Image
“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was… — Tom Jenkinson Copy Share Image
“If i live on longer, shall i again, i wonder, yearn for these days ? The world that i once saw as… — pictures of the heart Fujiwara no Kiyosuke Copy Share Image
I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
“Even the language to which a man is born and in which he makes known his wants is a foreign language. What… — Harry W. Wilson Copy Share Image
I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound. For the piercing cold of grief had caught Me in the doleful dread and bound… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being.… — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The Buried Woman // Die Begrabene In life we all pursued our aims. What held us up was lust and games. What… — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“After a couple hours of this, seven-year-old Christo was beside himself. He had never been babysat before. How long was this fuckery… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
“O Don Quixote, wise as thou art brave, La Mancha's splendor and of Spain the star! To thee I say that if… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
