Basically Quote by Elif Safak

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

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

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it…

— Bernard Malamud

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

— Martin Amis

My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and…

— Ken Liu

Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.

— Jose Saramago

I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first.

— Jon Secada

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in…

— W. G. Sebald

I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

— Patrick Modiano

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that…

— Joyce Carol Oates