I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film. — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
My phone is my favorite travel gadget because it has my translator. — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator. — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot. — Carlos Ruiz Copy Share Image
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Rufus Wilmot Griswold Copy Share Image
If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound.… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser"… — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“When some years ago, knowing ten words of English and using them all wrong, I applied for a translator’s job, my would-be… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole… — Kim Hunter Copy Share Image
“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their… — Pablo Neruda 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
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together.… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator ten times over.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The translator constantly learns new things about himself. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
No matter what language is being spoken, a smile will never need a translator. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
“Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love.” — Listiana Srisanti Copy Share Image
It's important to get a translator who will ask the questions in a sensitive and thoughtful way. Knowing the ethnicity issues, the… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
