Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
"Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a… — Emmanuelle Bercot Copy Share Image
I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it… — Christian Hosoi 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
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused… — Markus Zusak 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
I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable… — Jonathan Littell Copy Share Image
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations… — Joan Halifax 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
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz 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
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
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no… — Luis Alberto Urrea 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
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine 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
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of… — Robert Heinecken 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
“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
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual,… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
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