Books Quote by Tom Robbins

“She is a character in a novel, he says. The product of a male author’s imagination. This Defoe, is he French? No, I believe…

— Kim Leine

“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in…

— Stephen Clarke

“My spoken French was much like my written. Le shit.”

— Rob Aspinall

“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved…

— Julia Child

“there is a French version of the story, and a true one.”

— Stephen Clarke

“since for me speaking French is like speaking without saying anything somehow—with no responsibilities, the way we speak in a dream.”

— Thomas Mann

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.”

— E.B. White

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

— Tahir Shah

“Translators are the shadow heroes of literature.”

— Paul Auster

“When one speaks of sex with midgets, one must speak French.”

— Dennis Vickers

“English is only a weak second language, so that the third language--which at the moment is getting the most play, since French is what…

— Apol Lejano-Massebieau