Class Quote by Ann Goldstein

“I really had wanted to learn Italian for a long time. I think ever since - or even maybe even before I had read Dante. And I just sort of had this idea that I wanted to read Dante in Italian. And then in my office, we actually had a class - an Italian class.”

Ann Goldstein

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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.…

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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…

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

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

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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.

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

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