"Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world."

Paul Auster

"Writers make national literature, while translators make universal literature."

José Saramago

"Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture."

Anthony Burgess

"The original is unfaithful to the translation."

Jorge Luis Borges

"Translations are bridges between people."

Victor Hugo