Hands Quote by Francesca Woodman

I think every translator would tell you that when they look back at a poem they have translated, they want to pencil in changes.…

— Jesse Lee Kercheval

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

— Ken Blanchard

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

— Etgar Keret

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

— Paul Auster

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

— Pablo Casals

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

— Roman Abramovich

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

— Miles Davis

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

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

— Brian Ferneyhough

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

— Gregory Rabassa