Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. — Rufus Wilmot Griswold Copy Share Image
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation. — Adam Morris 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
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
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
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
“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
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in.… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
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
Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated… — Idra Novey 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
Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put… — Joseph Brodsky 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 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
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
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess 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
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf 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
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
I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman 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
(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival. — Andreï Makine 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
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
Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the… — Andre Naffis-Sahely 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
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