Art Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak

Translating is writing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age…

— Gregory Rabassa

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

— Ann Goldstein

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

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

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

— Nancy Mitford

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing… It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act…

— Harry Mathews

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words…

— Lydia Davis