Artistic Quote by Deborah Smith

Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure…

— 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

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

She is written in a foreign tongue.

— Henry James

Out of nowhere she tells me that Oliver Stone - you know, the director - she's like, 'He has this huge Asian fetish, and…

— Amy Schumer

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for…

— PSY

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

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to…

— Lydia Davis

“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte