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 - it's too hard, there are too many levels. Not that prose doesn't have many levels,… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph -… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
