Authors Quote by Stephen Kinzer

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

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

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

— Olga Tokarczuk

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

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

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation…

— Lydia Davis

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 French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

On the one hand, there is no question that English - frequently bad English - has become the universal language of scholarship. It is…

— Henry Rosovsky

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

— Allison Janney

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu