Books Quote by Gregory Rabassa

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

— Park Yeon-mi

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte

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

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

— Idra Novey

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

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

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

“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

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

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

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