Be kind Quote by Ann Goldstein

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

“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

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 writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

— Ann Goldstein

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

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

— Jorge Amado

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak