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
We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people… — Vicky Beeching 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
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf 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
“at the Catholic DePaul University, Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault were faithful translators as well as friends.” — Benoît Peeters Copy Share Image
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare… — Anita Diament 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
The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he… — Heinrich Boll 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
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The impresario functions as a bridge and a translator. He or she is a bridge between the creative point of view -… — John Kao Copy Share Image
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from… — Paul Goodman 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
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
“Kitty drove to the vacation park coffeehouse for the second time that day and opened her laptop to search for Russian to… — Gill Paul Copy Share Image
“In antiquity , for instance, one of the dominant images of the translators was that of a builder: his (usually it was… — Andrew Chesterman 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
“Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in… — Lynne Bowker 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
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author. — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser 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
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald 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
“Most translators, even if they work 40 hours a week or more, live a very self-directed lifestyle and can tailor their work… — Corinne McKay 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
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
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
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
