Satisfied Quote by Peter Newmark

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

— Adam Morris

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it…

— George Henry Lewes

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

— Jorge Amado

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

— Lucas Leiva

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

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

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

— Elfriede Jelinek

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

— John Millington Synge

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

— Horace

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

— Park Yeon-mi

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but…

— Gregory Rabassa