Because Quote by Geoffrey Zakarian

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from…

— Gore Vidal

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?

— Stephen Colbert

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

— Henry Rollins

Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what…

— Ken Liu

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

— Gregory Rabassa

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

— Charles Stross

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

— Allison Janney