Decades Quote by Paul Auster

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

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie…

— Joel Siegel

The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast in Japanese,…

— Scott Aukerman

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing…

— Lawrence Venuti

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

— Iris Murdoch

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of…

— Helen Frankenthaler

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

— Nancy Mitford

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

— Marilyn Hacker

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind…

— Paul Auster

Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the…

— John Ortberg