Actually Quote by Tom Stoppard

“...the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.”

— Csikszentmihaly

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

— Idra Novey

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

— Park Yeon-mi

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what…

— Christian Wiman

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new…

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.

— David Bellos

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

— Iris Murdoch

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

— Shunryu Suzuki

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

— Samuel Johnson