Quotes About Language

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

Somehow, German just vanished at some point. We already started at an early stage to translate our albums, and at some point, we started to write only in English.

Trivikram garu is my inspiration to learn Telugu. When I made my debut I didn't understand a single word, even when people around me would be talking. Trivikram garu used to translate for me.

I wouldn't exclude writing another song in German, but I don't want to translate songs anymore. We used to sit down and literally translate every song word for word - it was very technical, and the songs would lose so much along the way.

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but I am an American citizen and my books are published here, so I'm also an American writer.

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.

There isn't really a stylistic recipe for fonts to make them particularly suitable to be translated into different scripts.

Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.

I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English text how powerful the language was - the great surging speeches Othello has.

Language does not matter to audience if content is good. It is the director's belief which is translated on screen and roles are written according to his imagination.

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

Translation is the art of failure.

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

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