Am Quote by Derek Walcott

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

— Haruki Murakami

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.

— Ken Liu

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I have been working in seven languages.

— Atul Kulkarni

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on…

— Michael Korda

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and…

— Daniel Alarcon

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn

One belongs to one's language as a writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

— Isabel Allende