Big things Quote by Ann Goldstein

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

— Samuel Johnson

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

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

— Ann Goldstein

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

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic…

— Michael Cunningham

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

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

— Etgar Keret

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

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

— W. G. Sebald

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it…

— Idra Novey

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