The translator constantly learns new things about himself. — Ventseslav Konstantinov 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
I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me. — Andre Naffis-Sahely 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
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. — Samuel Johnson 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
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature. — Jose Saramago 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
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
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
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
It has to be said that one of the most impressive aspects of the parliament are the brilliant unsung translators, who ensure… — Claire Fox 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
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
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
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a… — John Donne 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
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman 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
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden 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
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
There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print — Gregory Rabassa Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
