Translators Quotes

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne

We are all mediators, translators.
Jacques Derrida

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Fear, Writers, Rush

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
Yo-Yo Ma

Different, Speak, Speaks

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
Jonathan Coe

Two, Learned, Personal

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.
Michael Cunningham

Working, Learned, Might

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