Books Quote by Olga Tokarczuk

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language…

— 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

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

It is only logical for the translator to become a part of the world of the author.

— Ventseslav Konstantinov

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

— Stephen Kinzer

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

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

— Haruki Murakami

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or…

— Elliott Colla

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

General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in…

— Lawrence Venuti

A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson