Best literature Quote by Karl Ove Knausgard

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

— Jorge Amado

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

— Ezra Pound

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be…

— Chath Piersath

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's…

— Jonathan Miller

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner