All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it,… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new… — George Strait Copy Share Image
“Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.” — Aubrey F.G. Bell Copy Share Image
“I wrote Vis consilii epers mole ruit sua on the front of the first tag, and on the inside I put the… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
“Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native… — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something” — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and… — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Apparently in Los Algadones, when they say Massage they don't mean.. a professional Massage... Oh no... we only do massage with happy… — Rose Etheridge Copy Share Image
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation. — Beck Copy Share Image
Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The truth is, I have an excellent team, a staff that handles Blue Elephant, my translation company, perfectly. It is like a… — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
“Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
“You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a… — Utada Hikaru Copy Share Image
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