Quote by Michael Oakeshott

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

— John Felstiner

“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

However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

“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

“We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding…

— Tom Robbins

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it…

— Idra Novey

“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 never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea…

— Amara Lakhous

The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words…

— Lydia Davis

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

— Adam Morris