"I have a deep love for the art of translation, and I couldn't find a novel that captured the fascinating, reckless adventure of it as I'd experienced it, or portrayed translators as the passionate risk-takers that so many of the translators I know are. So I wrote the book I couldn't find."

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Idra Novey

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“I'm not mad, though," Kat said. "You lied to me, and I lied to you. We're even." Finally he lost the grin. "When did you lie?" She gave him a Sweet'N Low smile, as if his amusement had been poured into her. "Every time we messed around. I didn't actually enjoy myself, if you know what I mean.”
“It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.”
“I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.”

Source : "Christine Quinn formally announces bid to be New York's first female mayor" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2013.
“The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.”
“I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.”
“It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.”
“Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”
“Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.”

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