Becomes Quote by Olga Tokarczuk

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

— Olga Tokarczuk

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 was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which…

— Deborah Smith

Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another…

— Laila Lalami

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers…

— Robertson Davies

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City,…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

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

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers…

— Robertson Davies

'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of…

— Natsuo Kirino

For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.

— Agustin Fernandez Mallo

Of course my books are translated into many languages. I have here, in my home, translations on my shelf of my books into forty-five…

— Amos Oz