Book Quote by Ali Liebegott

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 could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

— Bayard Taylor

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

— Anne Tyler

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

— Craig Thompson

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

— Albert J. Nock

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

— Chuck Palahniuk

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

— Etgar Keret

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

— Nick Hornby

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that…

— James A. Secord

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

When a translator translates my book, it is no longer just my book. It is the translator's book, too. So the book in another…

— Sam Lipsyte