Deborah Smith Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October and January respectively. A Greater Music is a semi-autobiographical book centred on a Korean writer moving to Berlin, learning to live and even write in a foreign language.

  Deborah Smith

  Book, Moving, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

• Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.

  Deborah Smith

  Mean, Writing, Littles

  Source: thequietus.com

• So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language, style, content, and often its author's gender. To publish it properly, in a way that makes it clear that this is art, not anthropology. To spotlight the importance of translation in making cultures less dully homogenous.

  Deborah Smith

  Art, Writing, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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