Translator Quotes
43 Translator quotes by 39 unique authors
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I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.
— Lydia Davis
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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and…
— Anita Diament
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Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
— Alexander Pushkin
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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
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It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that…
— John Dryden
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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
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When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of…
— Michio Kaku
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea…
— Tatiana Maslany
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
— Manuel Puig
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Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the…
— Joseph Brodsky
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It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate…
— Walter Benjamin
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Boys! Are they always this impossible? Do they always say cryptic, indecipherable things? (Note to self: work with Liz to adapt her boy-to-English translator into…
— Ally Carter
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(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
— Andreï Makine
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The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is…
— Barbara Jordan
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each…
— Marcel Proust
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My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as…
— Misha Glenny
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The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one,…
— Lydia Davis
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If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound. That I think…
— Mstislav Rostropovich
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Knowing medicine is not enough to be a great doctor. knowing language is not enough to be a great translator. knowing the law is not…
— Ali Bassam
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Best translator is one who translates somebodys silence
— Se7en
Who Wrote These Translator Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 43 Translator Quotes, led by these top contributors: