Adapt Quote by Lydia Davis

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

— Ann Goldstein

Translation is harder, believe it or not. You do have to come up with a story, and actually I'm mystified by that process. I…

— Elliott Colla

I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness in prose,…

— Katie Kitamura

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

— Anonymous

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

“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

“It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck…

— Horace Walpole

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

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

“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

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

— Adam Morris

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

— Gregory Rabassa