Translation Art Quotes

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

Translating is writing.

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.