Ardent Quote by Bayard Taylor

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

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

— Marcel Proust

“You don’t want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good…

— Anthea Bell

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be…

— Chath Piersath

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

— Ali Liebegott

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

— Allison Janney

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

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

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

— Haruki Murakami

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as…

— Ali Smith

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

— Robert Morgan

The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her…

— Anthony Doerr