Translations Quote by L.S. Baird

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

— Richard M. Weaver

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

— Laila Lalami

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Benedetto Croce

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to…

— August Wilson

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from…

— Gore Vidal

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls