Book Quote by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte

“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

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Jorge Amado

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

— Jorge Luis Borges

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

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 so much…

— Idra Novey

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 existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after…

— Lydia Davis

“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally…

— Salman Rushdie