Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Adam Morris

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

— Jorge Amado

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it…

— Idra Novey

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much…

— Idra Novey

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in…

— Haruki Murakami

“However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book & especially…

— Michael Cunningham

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .

— Reginald Horace Blyth

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte

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

I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that…

— Karl Ove Knausgard