Beautiful Quote by Craig Thompson

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

— Marcel Proust

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

— Bayard Taylor

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

“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

“Reading a book in the foreign language without using a dictionary? Are you sceptical? Don’t be! This is one of the keys that opens…

— Mihály Hevesi

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

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

— John Dryden

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

— Ali Liebegott

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

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

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

— Allison Janney

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