Translations Quotes - Page 13

• "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola. It's a masterpiece. I laughed a lot but was also overwhelmed by the story - a rare combination.

  Emmanuelle Bercot

  Stories, Overwhelmed, Lost

  "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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• I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Missing, Elements

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Book, Fiction, Relate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

  Cate Marvin

  Believe, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Forever, Wicked, Cuban

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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

  Ann Goldstein

  Thinking, Important, Be Kind

  Source: time.com

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• We find our voice, we lose our voice, we retrieve it, honor it, and hopefully, learn how to share it with others and stand in the center of our power. Translation is a theme. Fear and courage are a theme.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Voice, Honor, Share

  Source: www.allthesinglegirlfriends.com

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• If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.

  Judith Thurman

  World, Sentences, Senses

  "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

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• There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth!

  Daniel Wallace

  Mean, Biblical, Italian

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• The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

  Paul Goodman

  Style, Retreat, Language

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

  Voltaire

  Love, Crush, Abuse

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• Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Faithful, Degrees

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• To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.

  Paul Goodman

  Thinking, Style, Nuance

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• Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

  Robert Morgan

  Chinese, Important, Pounds

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• Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

  Lord Byron

  Art, Men, Long Ago

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.263, BookRix

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• We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

  Ernst Haas

  Writing, Prose And Poetry, Needs

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• The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

  Paul Kane

  Memories, Lying, Two

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• As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.

  Dan Brown

  Sound, Fiction, Research

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• I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

  Charles Stross

  Couple, May, Terrible

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• There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.

  James Frey

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

  John Denham

  Genius, Ought

  Sir John Denham (1709). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.114

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• I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.

  Peter Blegvad

  Wall, Clouds, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing your love for God's Word. I recommend it.

  Ann Spangler

  Faithful, God Love, Modern

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• Better known as the Secret of the Golden Flower, this is a famous neidan text that the Western world came to know through Richard Wilhelm's 1929 translation. The Chinese text used by Wilhelm was edited by Zhanran Huizhen zi in 1921. Besides this, at least five more versions are available, all of which date to the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and are ascribed to Lu Dongbin, who revealed them through spirit writing.

  Monica Esposito

  Flower, Writing, Secret

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• So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

  Frank Zappa

  Mean, Listening, Way

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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