Collaborators Quote by Joan Halifax

I've heard of translators collaborating closely with their authors, sometimes even living with them for a while, but that's not me.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

— Bill Vaughan

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

— Joan Halifax

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

— Adam Morris

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German…

— Heinrich Boll

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

“Translation work involves knowing not just the structure of the language to be translated, but the cultural framework that surrounds it.”

— Corinne McKay

However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other…

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

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

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

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

I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

— W. G. Sebald