In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes 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
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
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
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig 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
As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got… — Michio Kaku 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
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 Copy Share Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge 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
Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not… — Mona Baker Copy Share Image
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks 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
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
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money. — Juan Gabriel 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
