Impulse Quote by Idra Novey

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

— Milton H. Erickson

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

— Paul Auster

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea…

— Amara Lakhous

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

— Christian Wiman

“No one else can translate the language that is you.”

— Rave Jaida Jones

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

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

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 can’t translate myself into language any more.”

— Alice Notley

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

— Iris Murdoch

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

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