Culture Quote by Anthony Burgess

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

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 language is but a poor translation.

— Franz Kafka

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

— Horace

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

— Benjamin Jowett

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

— George Steiner

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 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

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe