Book Quote by Robertson Davies

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers…

— Robertson Davies

If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would have the…

— Robertson Davies

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

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in…

— Aaron Swartz

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Olga Tokarczuk

I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which…

— Deborah Smith

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public…

— Charles Nodier

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

— P. D. James

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City,…

— Sandra Cisneros