Bae Quote by Deborah Smith

I've read all of Sarah Waters's novels which have been translated into Korean.

— Park Chan-wook

To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible…

— Deborah Smith

The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for honor and…

— Susan Straight

All of which suggested literary translation, and Korean seemed a good bet - barely anything available in English, yet it was a modern, developed…

— Deborah Smith

Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris