American Quote by Gillian Tans

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded:…

— Anonymous

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

— Olga Tokarczuk

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

— Azim Premji

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the…

— Jonathan Coe

The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're…

— Imogen Poots

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

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and…

— Jung Chang

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

— Haruki Murakami

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our…

— Bill Vaughan

You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Few [books] get translated and the ones that do have trouble making it into the mainstream. It's more likely that Americans will discover another…

— Laila Lalami