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

"I hope this collection [of short stories from French authors] does justice to that variety [of distinctive literary v…"

"Food makes history in France, in legend and in fact. (...) But when Charles de Gaulle radioed the French underground …"

"Translating a big book is like getting married: You’re going to spend a long time together. You may put in months wei…"

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

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

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

"The sex scenes were the toughest to translate. Sex is notoriously hard to write about, and no easier to translate. My…"

"Like it or not, a translator has to take liberties. How many depends on closely the translator hews to the words of t…"

"(Speaking about his translation work of a diary by Berthe Weill) When it comes to typographical style, Berthe Weill i…"