Common Quote by Peter Menzel

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate…

— Mona Baker

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi

Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all…

— Arthur Rothstein

I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to…

— Ann Goldstein

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

— Etgar Keret

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

“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

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a…

— Bill Kaulitz

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald