Possessive Quote by Achy Obejas

Not all stories translate well when read out loud.

— Anonymous

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

— Jon Secada

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

— Julie Gonzalo

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

It's really natural for me to write bilingually.

— Kali Uchis

[Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when…

— Enrique Iglesias

I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't…

— E. L. Doctorow

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else…

— Idra Novey

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an…

— Adam Morris

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing…

— Marilyn Hacker

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald