We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Today, most translation work happens remotely, and translators can live almost anywhere. The up and down nature of most freelancers' work loads… — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
I think every translator would tell you that when they look back at a poem they have translated, they want to pencil… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
I teach Korean translation at the British Centre for Literary Translation summer school, so I see an emerging generation too, who are… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Whereas I remember being in Dakar, in Senegal, where I have my third studio, and street casting, and I remember looking at… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“He wonders again if the dead need translators; perhaps in a moment, in a simple twist of unbecoming, they know everything they… — Hilary Mantel 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
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
These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share Image
Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become… — Ann Leckie 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
As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the… — David M. Brown 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
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native… — Corinne McKay Copy Share Image
Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Obviously there are many, many ways of being an outsider, but having immigrant parents is one of them. For one thing, it… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
To me a translator is very, very important. If the fixer is also the translator, so much the better. I have known… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I think the fact that my parents are still, "Hey, great, that's great!" and not, "We need you to do this and… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of writers who would never have an opportunity to make their work. Some presses rely heavily… — Kimberly Peirce 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
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator…"I have two like crimes. Your data and your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
