Adults Quote by Laila Lalami

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

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

— Gary Shteyngart

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

— Stephen Kinzer

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.

— Lev Grossman

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

— Philip Pullman

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.

— Giles Foden

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

— Robyn Davidson

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If…

— James Franco

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel…

— Kingsley Amis

“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary calibre. People…

— Walter Mosley