Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale. — Steven J Lawson 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
I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation.… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of… — El-P Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
“Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading… — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Pour e crire ce livre essentiel, le seul livre vrai, un grand e crivain n'a pas, dans le sens courant, a' l'inventer… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
