Quote by Carl Sagan

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

— Leonardo Sciascia

“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”

— Cervantes

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

“Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.”

— Paul Auster

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

— E.B. White

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

“it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it at all.”

— Henry Gratton Doyle

“You had to translate his actions, for they were seldom accompanied by words, because his world was a quiet world; a disconnected, factured space;…

— Sarah Winman

“it’s the way he uses language—which is nothing like the way fantasists used language before him. There’s no sense of nostalgia. There’s no medieval…

— Joe Fassler

“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

“I could feel my attachment to the scene receding as I began to realize that everything was perfect and going according to plan in…

— Anita Moorjani