Aspirations Quote by Jon Bellion

“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

When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.

— Ken Liu

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Ann Goldstein

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really,…

— Ken Liu

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“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

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

— Paul Auster

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

— Samuel Johnson

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

— Adam Morris