Career Quote by Ken Liu

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 only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an…

— Adam Morris

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

— Haruki Murakami

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it…

— Idra Novey

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

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

— Jane Goldman

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea…

— Amara Lakhous

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing…

— Ann Patchett

I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So…

— Elif Safak

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald