Idra Novey Quotes

A single conversation can change things.

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.

To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.