Lobna Boukadi

“Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need.”
― Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

“We do so many things together. We go to theatres, exhibitions, bookstores, we spend hours and hours discussing politics, books, films, friends. And you think I do these things for the same reason you do, because I enjoy them. But you're wrong. I do them all for it, for the tapeworm. That's how it seems to me: that my whole life is no longer for my sake but for the sake of what I carry inside me, of which I am now no more than a servant.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Letters to a Young Novelist

“I started to make a literary being of myself, someone who lives as if her experiences were to be written down someday.”
― Annie Ernaux, Mémoire de fille

“Every translator’s origin story seems to involve a measure of serendipity, and mine is no exception.”
― Mark Polizzotti, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto