Apologizing Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.

— Marcel Proust

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the…

— Jonathan Coe

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me…

— Christopher Koch

My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and…

— Sara Zarr

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

— Mark Kurlansky

It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world.…

— Tim Winton

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to…

— John Gimlette

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in…

— Haruki Murakami

I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant.…

— Prue Leith