Education Quote by Benoît Peeters

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.”

— Paul Auster

The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

“translations are like wives—either beautiful or faithful, seldom both.”

— Raymond Ibrahim

“We can finally start translating the book," Cate said. "At least, I think we can." "A rousing call, not dissimilar from the band of…

— Nina Post

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

“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to…

— Elena Mauli Shapiro

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love.”

— Listiana Srisanti

“I made my promises in English and Anton did the same and even if the little priest understood not a word of it, we…

— Ute Carbone