Inventing Quote by Nancy Mitford

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

— Haruki Murakami

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak

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

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Adam Morris

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

— Paul Auster

The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

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

— Ann Goldstein