Aspect Quote by James Frey

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say…

— Lydia Davis

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling

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

— Ann Goldstein

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget…

— Jonathan Lethem

You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost…

— Robert Frost

Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no…

— Hunter Hayes

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words…

— Susan Griffin

I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.

— Nina Nastasia

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

In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though…

— Grace Paley