Edith Grossman on translation

I'm currently reading Marquez's memoir Living to Tell the Tale (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) translated by Edith Grossman. This volume - the first out of three-tomes memoir - is an account of events happened between 1927 and 1950's. It mainly deals with Marquez's school period, work as journalist, family, and attempts of writing short stories. It ends up with his proposal to his wife.

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Edith Grossman is a prolific translator from Spanish into English. Her bibliography of translated works really impresses. Looking for some infomation, I came across her speech she delivered at 2003 PEN Tribute to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, where she said this about translation:

[...] Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation. Let me insist on the obvious: Languages trail immense, individual histories behind them, and no two languages, with all their accretions of tradition and culture, ever dovetail perfectly. They can be linked by translation, as a photograph can link movement and stasis, but it is disingenuous to assume that either translation or photography, or acting for that matter, are representational in any narrow sense of the term. Fidelity is our noble purpose, but it does not have much, if anything, to do with what is called literal meaning. A translation can be faithful to tone and intention, to meaning. It can rarely be faithful to words or syntax, for these are peculiar to specific languages and are not transferable. [...]