In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many… — Kal Penn Copy Share Image
“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don't suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
...nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book... ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down,… — Daniil Kharms Copy Share Image
I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, which is totally random, but I love him. Just finished the new Joan Didion book, Blue Nights,… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“In a novel, all his life's anxieties, his mixture of strength and weakness, his potential for hysteria - all would have been… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“And then another book, never read, long forgotten, catches his eye. The jacket is missing, the title on the spine practically faded.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Gogol flips through the book. A single picture at the front, on smoother paper than the rest of the pages, shows a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even Pushkin, who could understand everything, did not grasp the real significance of Dead Souls. He thought that the author was grieving… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of… — Valerian Maykov Copy Share Image
“For Gogol Ganguli- The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“The givers and keepers of Gogol’s name are far from him now. One dead. Another, a widow, on the verge of a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
![“I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.” quote by Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b7/alexander-weinstein-17341_character_i-love-the-russian-absurdists-nikolai-go_2478186.jpg)
![“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 lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.” quote by Mel Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffe/mel-brooks-2308_behavior_i-love-nikolai-gogol-s-great-eye-for-idi_905127.jpg)
