“From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick. — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
“mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
