The literature of the world has exerted its power by being…

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique…

— Mo Yan

The writer studies literature, not the world.

— Annie Dillard

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and…

— Karl Marlantes

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

— Annie Dillard

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

— Northrop Frye

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

— Franz Kline

I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are translated, but…

— Isabel Allende

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He…

— Thomas Kyd

“It is safe to say that poetry cannot be translated.”

— Leon Ma. Guerrero

My game from college has translated into the pros.

— Malcolm Brogdon

“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…” “You told…

— Olga Núñez Miret

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.

— Mo Ibrahim

“If i live on longer, shall i again, i wonder, yearn for these days ? The world that i once saw as bitter, now,…

— pictures of the heart Fujiwara no Kiyosuke