Gregory Rabassa Inspirational Quotes (5)

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

Translation is a disturbing craft because there is precious little certainty about what we are doing, which makes it so difficult in this age of fervent belief and ideology, this age or greed and screed.

When you hear Portuguese, if you're listening fleetingly, it's as if you're hearing Russian, which never happens with Spanish. Because the Portuguese and the Russians share the open vowels and the dark L, the owL sound.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print