Appropriation Quote by Eliot Weinberger

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

— Anthony Burgess

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

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

— Deborah Kass

Translation is an act of recreation.

— Ken Liu

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

— Gregory Rabassa

“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

“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

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act…

— Harry Mathews

Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a…

— Lawrence Venuti

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

— Jon Bellion