Family Quote by Corinne McKay

“Today, most translation work happens remotely, and translators can live almost anywhere. The up and down nature of most freelancers' work loads also lends…

— Corinne McKay

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate…

— Mona Baker

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea…

— Amara Lakhous

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

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

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Listiana Srisanti

“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 only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an…

— Adam Morris

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