Identity Quote by Samuel Beckett

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else…

— Idra Novey

I want my words to survive translation.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

— Laura Marling

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

— Paul Auster

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea…

— Amara Lakhous

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

— Kesha

My journey is self-made because I came from nothing. It's the best feeling now, because I don't really feel like I owe anybody.

— Dave East

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

— Ella Maillart

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately,…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Nancy Mitford

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

— Lucas Leiva