I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.

- Ann Goldstein

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

- Ann Goldstein

Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't re…

- Ann Goldstein

I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry - it's too hard, …

- Ann Goldstein

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

- Ann Goldstein

I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own versi…

- Ann Goldstein

As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in …

- Ann Goldstein

It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get out of it - or don't get out…

- Ann Goldstein

Trying to take a feeling from one language, and express it in another is naturally that's my goal. You can't possibly achieve that in a perfect way b…

- Ann Goldstein