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“If the students didn’t understand the charade, I’d turn and write on the blackboard, but I tried to avoid even that. I didn’t want…

— Lou Ann Walker

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember…

— Rose Leslie

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes…

— Alma Guillermoprieto

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost…

— Pharrell Williams

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

— Jim Broadbent

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

— Manuel Puig

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language…

— Olga Tokarczuk

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

— Paul Auster

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 would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

— Karla Souza