Gunter Grass
Novelist
"Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes."
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Translators
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jacques Derrida
Philosopher, Linguist
"We are all mediators, translators."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him."
Jose Saramago
Writer
"Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature."
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