Translate Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

“All writing is an act of translation.”

— Maya Jasanoff

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Nancy Mitford

All language is but a poor translation.

— Franz Kafka

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

— David Bellos

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

— Adam Morris

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Ann Goldstein

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

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

— Paul Auster

“… writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates