32 Quotes About Translations

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

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

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

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