Appearing Quote by Manuel Puig

“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

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

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to…

— Walter Benjamin

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

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Samuel Johnson

“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

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to…

— Elena Mauli Shapiro

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

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