Art Quote by Elliott Colla

The stories that confirm that bigger story are brought in and easily digested. But there's another set of stories that are always there, which…

— Elliott Colla

I've never translated more than one book by any author. But I'm fascinated by translators who have, like Richard Zenith, who's translated so much…

— Idra Novey

“I press my books against my chest like a bulletproof vest.”

— Amelia Kahaney

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

You know how some people are upwardly mobile? I'm sort of downwardly mobile in the publishing world, because of my sales figures and also…

— Lynne Tillman

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

— Larry Elder

Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit,…

— Michael Chabon

“It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.”

— Alain de Botton

“Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth…

— John Holt

When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at base, it's…

— Olga Tokarczuk

My game from college has translated into the pros.

— Malcolm Brogdon