Multiple Quote by Lydia Davis

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Adam Morris

There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and…

— James Frey

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

— Paul Auster

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's…

— Dana Fox

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

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

— Nancy Mitford

I want my words to survive translation.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

— Iris Murdoch