It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who…

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with…

— Carine Roitfeld

The language is the hardest thing. My technical Russian is much better than my conversational Russian, and it has to be good enough to…

— Shannon Walker

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish…

— Cheech Marin

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how…

— John Grant

if you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it

— Richelle Mead

You know, I grew up in the East part of Germany so we never had English in school, we had to learn Russian.

— Till Lindemann

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without…

— David Remnick

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write…

— Jeanette Winterson

It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

— Chloe Benjamin

In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.

— Juvenal

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

— Edward St Aubyn

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon