Bae Quote by Deborah Smith

I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October and January…

— Deborah Smith

I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which…

— Deborah Smith

Things can be translated, but they become different.

— Amos Oz

“I’ve learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. It is not, of…

— Michael Cunningham

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much…

— Idra Novey

Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation.…

— Adam Morris

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

— Robert Lane Greene

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately,…

— Salman Rushdie

“Entire sections of them simply cannot be translated - the characters are legible and well-known, but when put together they do not say anything…

— Neal Stephenson

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae…

— Dennis Rodman