Language Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but…

— Jim Morrison

“as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then you lived…

— Neil Gaiman

There are times when I can't stop speaking, when a million words leave my mouth in a matter of seconds… a million words that…

— Rae Earl

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation.…

— Adam Morris

In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

— Hal Duncan

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi

“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