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
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
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 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
“Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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 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 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
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