Being honest Quote by Daniel Alarcon

“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from a language…

— Natasha Pulley

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally…

— Salman Rushdie

It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses…

— John Dryden

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot…

— Javier Bardem

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

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