Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing… It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“The work of the authors of the LXX was not only a translation, it was also a revised version. In all such… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not… — Mona Baker Copy Share Image
Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark) — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Then the Yo-Yo was coming around again, and Vann Larch was saying, "Gehenna with this fooling around! I'll fix the expurgated unprintability!” — H. Beam Piper Copy Share Image
In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but… — Eugene A. Nida Copy Share Image
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
“The storm that batters the magnolia’s impermeable leaves, the long-drawn drum roll of Martian thunder with its hail ... lighting that makes… — Geoffrey Hill after Montale Copy Share Image
“If you know all the languages of the world and you don't know your mother tongue or the language of your culture,… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and meter… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over… — Amara Lakhous Copy Share Image
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me.… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
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