Documents Quote by Sibel Edmonds

My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and…

— Ken Liu

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Park Yeon-mi

I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that…

— Elliott Colla

There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated.

— Michelle Obama

“To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.”

— Nataly Kelly

Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what…

— Ken Liu

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

— Paul Auster

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know…

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“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

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

— Juan Gabriel