Bilingual Writing Quotes

We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.

I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm still writing in Russian.

It's really natural for me to write bilingually.

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

I write my novels in English first; then they are translated into Turkish by professional translators. Then I take their translation and rewrite. So basically, I write the same novel twice.