“Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.” — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“Before his and Pushkin's advent Russian literature was purblind. What form it perceived was an outline directed by reason: it did not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I just walk how I walk. But I am also really inspired by the physical drama in silent films from the beginning… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
“The first time I read Isaac Babel was in a college creative writing class. The instructor was a sympathetic Jewish novelist with… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by… — Mirra Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I believe!’ Margarita whispered solemnly. ‘I believe! Something will happen! It cannot not happen, because for what, indeed, has lifelong torment been… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it… — Tuppence Middleton Copy Share Image
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Once [the Senator's] brain has come into play with the mysterious stranger, that stranger exists, really does exist: he will not disappear… — Andrei Bely Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
