Cat-tools Quote by Lynne Bowker

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

“This is echoed by King-scott (1996, 295), who warns that unless technology-related issues are integrated into translator-training programmes, there is a real danger that…

— Lynne Bowker

“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

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

— Juan Gabriel

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

— Etgar Keret

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

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

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

“To translate a text is to be conducted into its mysteries in a way that no mere act of reading—however conscientious or frequent—makes possible.…

— David Bentley Hart