Books Quote by Ventseslav Konstantinov

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think translations should convey the feelings expressed in the original work. This is what I have believed in and practised.

— Gulzar

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

— Nancy Mitford

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

— Lucas Leiva

“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

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much…

— Idra Novey

I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

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

— Ann Goldstein

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of…

— Marilyn Hacker

“Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work…

— Edith Grossman

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