#translator

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#credentials #hire #impeccable #lived #means

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

#biggest #books #closest #coincidence #countries

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

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic

We are all mediators, translators. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language. ↗

— Kim Hunter

#communicate #could #delightful #felt #go

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. ↗

— Daoud Hari

#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

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

— John Donne

#employs #god #justice #pieces #several

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#publishers #rush #translators #tread #where

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

#close #compare #english #favorite #how

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

#always #approve #conversations #english #example