Language Quote by G. Willow Wilson

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes

This isnt just a matter of translating from one language to another. They dont have a language at all

— Superman

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything…

— Neal Stephenson

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

— Manuel Puig

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

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

— Samuel Johnson

Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.

— Joseph Brodsky

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