Chekhov Quote by Tom Stoppard

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the…

— Isabelle Huppert

“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something”

— G. Willow Wilson

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

— Jorge Amado

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a…

— Ron Padgett

The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after…

— Lydia Davis

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am…

— Tom Stoppard

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

— Yann Martel

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

— Tom Clancy