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

— William Rodarmor

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

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."

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

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