Annoyed Quote by Anonymous

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

— Ann Goldstein

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck…

— Madeline Miller

“This is heaven.” And I wouldn’t hear him say another word for at least an hour. There was nothing I loved more in life…

— André Aciman

“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.”

— E.B. White

“Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.”

— Beth Kephart

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German…

— Heinrich Boll

“If I'd known he was going to die, my last words to him would have meant something. They certainly wouldn't have been my out-of-tune…

— Sarah Ockler

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people…

— Neil Gaiman

I wasn't happy with Tagore's own translations in English. Maybe he was, but I wasn't, so I took it upon myself to do it.

— Gulzar

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an…

— Adam Morris

“In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the…

— Yann Martel

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau