Best Quote by Lana Condor

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

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

— Adam Morris

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

— Cassandra Clare

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

— Ann Goldstein

If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.

— Waheeda Rehman

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic…

— Michael Cunningham

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

— Yann Martel

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it…

— Idra Novey

“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is not, of…

— Michael Cunningham

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

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

— Jorge Amado