Language Quote by Paul Auster

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

— Jorge Amado

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

— Ann Goldstein

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

— Benjamin Jowett

When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All…

— Jay L. Garfield

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

— Lucas Leiva

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

— Christian Wiman

“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

— Robert Lane Greene

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

— Manuel Puig

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close…

— Gregory Rabassa