Flaws Quote by Katie Kitamura

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

The point about sales is relevant because it suggests there are cultures out there that are supporting and consuming, on a vast scale, challenging…

— Katie Kitamura

It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

— Katie Kitamura

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

— Katie Kitamura

There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on…

— Katie Kitamura

I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world in a…

— Katie Kitamura

I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence of excellent…

— Katie Kitamura

I don't speak any languages well enough to make an expert assessment on writing in translation, but since I'm interested in awkwardness in prose,…

— Katie Kitamura

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and…

— Katie Kitamura

“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the sensation was…

— Katie Kitamura

“People were capable of living their lives in a state of permanent disappointment, there were plenty of people who did not marry the person…

— Katie Kitamura