Book Quote by Sandra Cisneros

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

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 would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.

— Karla Souza

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

— Casey Stengel

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

— Haruki Murakami

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

— Don DeLillo

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

My father spoke several languages and he had hundreds of books.

— Michele Lamy

I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

— John Kluge