American writer Quote by Daniel Kehlmann

Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from…

— Daniel Kehlmann

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

— Tom Stoppard

English dialogue is the best in the world. So dry and direct. The Italian language is beautiful, but it is too literary.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem with them…

— Quentin Tarantino

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German…

— Heinrich Boll

“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

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

“The translator, we should know, is a writer too. As a matter of fact, he could be called the ideal writer because all he…

— Gregory Rabassa

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.

— Jan Vogler