Advantage Quote by Liv Ullmann

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

— Cory Barlog

I'm a believer in the benefits of translation. It's a necessity and a privilege - it would be awful to be limited to reading…

— Daniel Alarcon

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In…

— Ann Patchett

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

Our knowledge of Swedish culture is kind of limited. Bergman was one Swedish thing that we both knew about and were kind of passionate…

— Ron Mael

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

— Knut Hamsun

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's…

— Will Ferrell

Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such a small…

— Karin Tidbeck

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside…

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Simone Muench