Books Quote by Tom Robbins

If you've got some to say to Ric Flair, you come say it to me, and I'll make the translation.

— Roddy Piper

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

— Rumi

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been…

— Katie Kitamura

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

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

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the…

— Edmund White

“ANNALS OF LANGUAGE WORD MAGIC How much really gets lost in translation? BY ADAM GOPNIK Once, in a restaurant in Italy with my family,…

— Anonymous

“Translation is the other side of a tapestry.”

— Leonardo Sciascia

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

“[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side.”

— Cervantes