Advantage 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 that only skilled professional readers…

— Robertson Davies

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich

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

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

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

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

— Anonymous

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

— William H. Gass

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

— Ruth Ozeki