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 ferv…

- Gregory Rabassa

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

- Gregory Rabassa

One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, a…

- Gregory Rabassa

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

- Gregory Rabassa

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

- Gregory Rabassa

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" word…

- Gregory Rabassa

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…

- Gregory Rabassa

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

- Gregory Rabassa