Book Quote by Idra Novey

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

— Ann Goldstein

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 translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly…

— Eugene A. Nida

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Gregory Rabassa

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to…

— Walter Benjamin

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

— Park Yeon-mi

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

— W. G. Sebald

To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in…

— Marcel Proust