Aspect Quote by Etgar Keret

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 tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

— Haruki Murakami

To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.

— Ann Goldstein

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

— Jane Goldman

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been…

— Katie Kitamura

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

— Allison Janney

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