Rex Stout Quotes

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

Our Japanese fans don't speak English primary. They'll translate a sentence before coming and say something like, 'Thank you for coming to our country.' It's like, you're welcome. Thanks for coming to our show!

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

I cherish our songs in both Japanese and English.

Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.

When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.