I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs…

“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

“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

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

“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

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

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

— Nikolai Gogol

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

“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 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

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

— Andrea Bocelli

“And then another book, never read, long forgotten, catches his eye. The jacket is missing, the title on the spine practically faded. It’s a…

— Anonymous

First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a dictionary comes…

— Lore Segal