Aggression Quote by Lawrence Venuti

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

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

Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of…

— Peter Newmark

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act…

— Harry Mathews

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate…

— Mona Baker

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson

“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work…

— Edith Grossman

“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally…

— Salman Rushdie

The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words…

— Lydia Davis

“The translator's task is essentially a difficult and often a thankless one. He is severely criticized if he makes a mistake, but only faintly…

— Eugene A. Nida

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

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield