Translations Quotes · Page 3

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

— Lydia Davis

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust

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

— Ernst Haas

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

— Ned Rorem

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

— Charlie Flynn

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

— Gunter Grass

The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter…

— Stan Getz

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This…

— Suzanne Ciani

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…

— Etgar Keret

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"…

— Gregory Rabassa

Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?

— Pablo Neruda

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for…

— Gal Gadot

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne…

— Louis Pasteur

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin…

— Lawrence Venuti

The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road…

— Robin Furth

Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the…

— Susan Sontag

Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall…

— Martial

Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,…

— J. G. Ballard

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic…

— Tana French

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate…

— Henry David Thoreau

Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and…

— Gerhard Richter

I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into…

— Malinda Lo

One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu…

— Sam Hamill

One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at…

— Mia Wasikowska

Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from…

— Leigh Newman

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books…

— Amos Oz

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

— Anne Michaels

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

— Paul Valery

Let the die be cast! [Greek: Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος; contemporary Latin (mis)translation: Iacta alea est!]

— Julius Caesar

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

— Erich Segal

I want my voice to be consistent no matter if it's an original or a translation.

— Karin Tidbeck

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

— Steven J Lawson

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

— Suzy Kassem

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

— Robert Hass