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Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there… — Miguel de Cervantes
They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there. — Marcel Proust
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… — Herbert Spencer
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs. — Laura Marling
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go… — Tea Obreht
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one… — Mary Catherine Bateson
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective… — Gerhard Richter
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan.… — Jung Chang
Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could… — Lydia Davis
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture… — Michael Cunningham
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the… — Marilyn Hacker
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself,… — Marilyn Hacker
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things… — Etgar Keret
Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything… — Leigh Newman
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the… — Karl Ove Knausgard
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the… — Italo Calvino
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put… — August Wilson
There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best… — John Dryden
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. — Robert Frost
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it. — Cornelia Funke
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? — Cyril Connolly

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