Books Quote by Lawrence Venuti

Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a…

— Lawrence Venuti

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

“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

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

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in…

— Lawrence Venuti

“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

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

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live:…

— Anne Michaels

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

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