I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol…

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way…

— Andrea Bocelli

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian…

— Pat Conroy

“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of the contemporary…

— Valerian Maykov

“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Gogol flips through the book. A single picture at the front, on smoother paper than the rest of the pages, shows a pencil drawing…

— Anonymous

I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a…

— Mel Brooks

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

— Nikolai Gogol

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at…

— Daniil Kharms

“Even Pushkin, who could understand everything, did not grasp the real significance of Dead Souls. He thought that the author was grieving for Russia,…

— Lev Shestov

Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

— Anonymous

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

— Terry Pratchett

“Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don't suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way, an American…

— Jhumpa Lahiri