尽管翻译金庸的故事并非易事，但正如安娜·霍姆伍德在译者序言中写的那样：
Many have considered Jin Yong’s world too foreign, too Chinese for an English-speaking readership. Impossible to translate. And yet this story of love, loyalty, honor and the power of the individual against successive corrupt governments and invading forces is as universal as any story could hope to be. The greatest loss that can occur in translation can only come from not translating it at all.
（许多人认为，对英语读者来说，金庸的世界异域风味太浓，太中国，译不了。但这个故事里的爱、忠诚、荣耀，以及个人对腐败官僚的抗争、对入侵者的抵御，又是每一个故事都渴望拥有的。不译，才是最大的损失。）
这是目前英文版《射雕》在Kindle上被标记得最多的一段话。
