Life Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

— Simone Muench

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading…

— Daniel Alarcon

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 is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

— Olga Tokarczuk

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home…

— Natasha Trethewey

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

— Haruki Murakami

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like…

— Boris Pasternak

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

I think there are a lot of writers who would never have an opportunity to make their work. Some presses rely heavily on the…

— Kimberly Peirce