diff --git a/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py b/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py
index 54282876..3454c95f 100644
--- a/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py
+++ b/google/cloud/sqlalchemy_spanner/sqlalchemy_spanner.py
@@ -137,6 +137,32 @@ def visit_empty_set_expr(self, type_):
             _type_map_inv[type(type_[0])]
         )
 
+    def render_literal_value(self, value, type_):
+        """Render the value of a bind parameter as a quoted literal.
+
+        This is used for statement sections that do not accept bind parameters
+        on the target driver/database.
+
+        This should be implemented by subclasses using the quoting services
+        of the DBAPI.
+
+        Cloud spanner supports prefixed backslash to escape non-alphanumeric characters
+        in string. Override the method to add  additional escape before using it to
+        generate a SQL statement.
+        """
+        raw = ["\\", "'", '"', "\n", "\t", "\r"]
+        if type(value) == str and any(single in value for single in raw):
+            value = 'r"""{}"""'.format(value)
+            return value
+        else:
+            processor = type_._cached_literal_processor(self.dialect)
+            if processor:
+                return processor(value)
+            else:
+                raise NotImplementedError(
+                    "Don't know how to literal-quote value %r" % value
+                )
+
 
 class SpannerDDLCompiler(DDLCompiler):
     """Spanner DDL statements compiler."""
@@ -183,7 +209,7 @@ def visit_primary_key_constraint(self, constraint):
         return None
 
     def visit_unique_constraint(self, constraint):
-        """Unique contraints in Spanner are defined with indexes:
+        """Unique constraints in Spanner are defined with indexes:
         https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/secondary-indexes#unique-indexes
 
         The method throws an exception to notify user that in
diff --git a/test/test_suite.py b/test/test_suite.py
index 3e2d5330..b0d48f11 100644
--- a/test/test_suite.py
+++ b/test/test_suite.py
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@
 from sqlalchemy.testing.suite.test_select import OrderByLabelTest as _OrderByLabelTest
 from sqlalchemy.testing.suite.test_types import BooleanTest as _BooleanTest
 from sqlalchemy.testing.suite.test_types import IntegerTest as _IntegerTest
+from sqlalchemy.testing.suite.test_types import StringTest as _StringTest
+
 from sqlalchemy.testing.suite.test_types import _LiteralRoundTripFixture
 
 from sqlalchemy.testing.suite.test_types import (  # noqa: F401, F403
@@ -535,7 +537,6 @@ def _literal_round_trip(self, type_, input_, output, filter_=None):
                     )
                 )
                 conn.execute(ins)
-                conn.execute("SELECT 1")
 
             if self.supports_whereclause:
                 stmt = t.select().where(t.c.x == literal(value))
@@ -843,3 +844,9 @@ def test_nolength_binary(self):
 @pytest.mark.skip("Spanner doesn't support quotes in table names.")
 class QuotedNameArgumentTest(_QuotedNameArgumentTest):
     pass
+
+
+class StringTest(_StringTest):
+    @pytest.mark.skip("Spanner doesn't support non-ascii characters")
+    def test_literal_non_ascii(self):
+        pass