Knowing Quote by Ken Liu

I think every translator would tell you that when they look back at a poem they have translated, they want to pencil in changes.…

— Jesse Lee Kercheval

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

— Gregory Rabassa

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

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

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what…

— Christian Wiman

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading…

— Daniel Alarcon

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

— Park Yeon-mi

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

— Jorge Luis Borges

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

— Lydia Davis

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes