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To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.
— Ann Goldstein
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
— Robert Fitzgerald
A good editor fixes. A superb editor fixes without ruining the original message of your book as a superb translator does as well.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Whenever I write a paragraph in English, I first check it with the Google Translator, and most often it says no language detected.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
— Nataly Kelly
All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two languages, one of them mine.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
— Vernor Vinge
Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love.
— Listiana Srisanti
The translator constantly learns new things about himself.
— Ventseslav Konstantinov
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
— Alexander Pushkin
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
— Manuel Puig
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.
— Cynthia Ozick
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.
— William Zinsser
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.
— Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.
— Ken Liu
I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.
— Lydia Davis
A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.
— Philip Zaleski
It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.
— Ventseslav Konstantinov
No matter how great the book is, Its translator will never be famous as the author!Better Write!
— Me
And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
— Cornelia Funke
A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)
— Peter Newmark
What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?
— Daoud Hari
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
— Gregory Rabassa
( ... ) the translator of prose is the slave of the author and the translator of poetry is his rival.
— Andrei Makine
Robin Buss is a writer and translator who contributes regularly to The Times Educational Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement and other papers.
— Alexandre Dumas
Raimon Casellas is the writer (not Raimoun)Alan Yates the translator
Eva Bosch the editor — Casellas Raimoun Yates Alan
