Books Quote by Tim Parks

“Reading a book in the foreign language without using a dictionary? Are you sceptical? Don’t be! This is one of the keys that opens…

— Mihály Hevesi

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat…

— Leslie Charteris

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

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be…

— Chath Piersath

“Bryson says that “we tend to regard other people’s languages as we regard their cultures— with ill-hidden disdain.” Too true. Unfortunately, Bryson proves himself…

— Robert Lane Greene

“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.”

— Gary Shteyngart

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

“We have learnt a lesson: words written in books, all of them, are lies. There are no exceptions. Words written on papers are all…

— NisiOisiN

“Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader’s limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“It takes a thorough knowledge of the English language to effectively abuse it.”

— Charlene Vermeulen

“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