“In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“Death is only a translation of life into another language.” — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator. — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Even though Spivak’s translation met with some criticism and had to be revised several times, Of Grammatology achieved astronomical sales of nearly… — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
“We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“When I spoke to her in Spanish I was not translating, I was not thinking my thoughts in English first, but I… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The land mass on the other side, visible to the eye as a dark sliver on the horizon, would soon acquire its… — Daniel Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it. — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. — Amisha Patel Copy Share Image
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
“Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation. — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.” — Henry Gratton Doyle Copy Share Image
