Hard Quotes by Ann Goldstein

I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of…

— Ann Goldstein

Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve that in…

— Ann Goldstein

I think it's important to be accurate on the level of the word, but it's also important to be accurate at the level of…

— Ann Goldstein

I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to…

— Ann Goldstein

Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached.…

— Ann Goldstein

I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry…

— Ann Goldstein

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

— Ann Goldstein

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

— Ann Goldstein

One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.

— Ann Goldstein

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

— Ann Goldstein

It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get…

— Ann Goldstein

I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that…

— Ann Goldstein