Feelings Quote by Gulzar

The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

“An ideal translation should, I believe, reproduce the effect of the original, but I have found that the best any translator can even hope…

— Harold G. Henderson

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

— Alicia Vikander

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

— Adam Morris

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

— Nancy Mitford

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

— Paul Auster

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

“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 far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald