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I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

— Simone Muench

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that…

— Joan Larkin

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

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris

I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of…

— Ann Goldstein

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

— Jorge Amado

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else…

— Idra Novey

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

— Ann Goldstein

I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he…

— Anonymous

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

— Nancy Mitford

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

— Paul Auster

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

— Marilyn Hacker