Book Quote by Richelle Mead

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading…

— Graham Robb

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

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

— Bayard Taylor

“Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.”

— Brian Selznick

I went to the Sorbonne in Paris for two years and read all the classics by authors like Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant.…

— Prue Leith

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

— Mark Kurlansky

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that "childhood reading experts" continue their debates about the best strategies…

— Alan Jacobs

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

— Ciaran Carson

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.

— Craig Thompson

“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

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

— John Scott