Always Quote by W. G. Sebald

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

— Isabel Allende

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

— Pauline Chalamet

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

— Mark Kurlansky

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me,…

— Chath Piersath

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even…

— Chinua Achebe

Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such a small…

— Karin Tidbeck

I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So…

— Elif Safak

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

— Thomas Mars

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

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

— Haruki Murakami

Somehow, German just vanished at some point. We already started at an early stage to translate our albums, and at some point, we started…

— Bill Kaulitz