Act Quote by Ken Liu

The writing I do makes great demands on translators.

— W. G. Sebald

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

“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

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

— Jon Bellion

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a…

— Bill Kaulitz

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

“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

— Ishaan Khatter