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
The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was… — Ibn Khaldun 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
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
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
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible… — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she… — Emma Watson 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
An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In addition to pumping the blood of life within our bodies, we may think of the heart as a belief-to-matter translator. It… — Gregg Braden 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 best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as is possible, and moves the reader towards him: or he leaves… — Friedrich Schleiermacher 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
