I used Babelfish, and noticed something interesting - you can't get very far with that before you have to go back to English. There seem to be a lot of languages which can only translate to English or French.

I started with:
"You write the lie you'd like to be when your life looks like a book you wouldn't read."

Translated to French, then German, then back to English, I ended up with:

"They write the lie that you would like to be, if your life at a book does not resemble you read."