Translation Quotes
What survives between languages.
These translation quotes move between the technical and the personal — a scientist's precise definition of mirror-image objects, and a writer's hope that their words survive the trip into another language, a quiet test of real Communication.
An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.
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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.
Clarity Quotes
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.
Communication Quotes
I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
Emotion Quotes
I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So basically, I write the same novel twice.
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.
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
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