Books Quote by Friedrich Schleiermacher

(...) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.

— Andreï Makine

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly…

— Eugene A. Nida

“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

“As the Italian proverb says, 'Translators are traitors.' At some level we all are traitors to the text, saying a little less than the…

— William D. Mounce

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

— Paul Goodman

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

— Gregory Rabassa

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

— Adam Morris

“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling must shift…

— Gregory Rabassa

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

— Samuel Johnson

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar