Achieve Quote by Lydia Davis

The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after…

— Lydia Davis

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

— Jorge Amado

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

— Adam Morris

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it…

— George Henry Lewes

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close…

— Gregory Rabassa

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but…

— Gregory Rabassa

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

— Ann Goldstein

“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”

— Karen Healey

“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