Bae Quote by Deborah Smith

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

— Park Chan-wook

Songs are more powerful than books.

— Elvis Costello

“After thirty years working as a commercial fiction translator, I've reached to the conclussion that, on average, the more pages a book has, the…

— César Aira

“Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.”

— Jarod Kintz

My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the…

— Theresa Breslin

Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and…

— Deborah Smith

“One of the reasons I wanted to write this column, I think, is because I assumed that the cultural highlight of my month would…

— Nick Hornby

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

— Paul Auster

“I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…

— P. G. Wodehouse

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music…

— Anonymous

“...for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,…

— Anne Lamont