Betray Quote by Jay L. Garfield

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

“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

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

“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

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate…

— Mona Baker

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

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

— Elfriede Jelinek

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Adam Morris

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Park Yeon-mi