Thinking Quote by Adam Morris

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

— Peter Newmark

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it…

— George Henry Lewes

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but…

— Gregory Rabassa

“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work…

— Edith Grossman

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two…

— Kurt Vonnegut