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[Literary translation work] has all the pleasures of creative writing, and you never have writer’s block.

— William Rodarmor

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Jokes [are] the bane of every trasnlator's existence.

Like most translators, I’m a ventriloquist, and I work hard to make people sound like themselves, and not like me.

Good writers are an editor's stock in trade (...) You have to treasure them and treat them right.

My loyalty as a translator is to both the author and the reader, but in a pinch, I try to help the reader.

Translating a big book is like getting married: You’re going to spend a long time together. You may put in months weighing each word, often more carefully than the author."

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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