Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then… — Gary Shteyngart Books Copy Share Image
“It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to… — Gary Shteyngart Country Copy Share Image
“I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.” — Gary Shteyngart Growing up Copy Share Image
“We may not be a great power anymore, we may be into you for sixty-five trillion yuan-pegged, but we're not afraid to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to… — Gary Shteyngart About Copy Share Image
“I know this kind of girl,” Grace was saying. “It’s the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible… — Gary Shteyngart Ambulance Copy Share Image
“This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.” — Gary Shteyngart Immigration Copy Share Image
She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for… — Gary Shteyngart Fake Copy Share Image
“I started to see it Eunice's way. We now had obligations to each other. Our families had failed us, and now we… — Gary Shteyngart Failure Copy Share Image
“How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young… — Gary Shteyngart Better world Copy Share Image
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it… — Gary Shteyngart Advertising Copy Share Image
“Cohen was on his knees taking a picture of a passing cloud, an unremarkable cirrus shaped as if it were sketched expressly… — Gary Shteyngart Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“I hate the Fourth of July. The early middle age of summer. Everything is alive and kicking for now, but the eventual… — Gary Shteyngart Believe in god Copy Share Image
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
“This would be the worst birthday of his life. Vladimir's best friend Baobab was down in Florida covering his rent, doing unspeakable… — Gary Shteyngart Best friend Copy Share Image
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. — Gary Shteyngart Attention Copy Share Image
“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of… — Gary Shteyngart Failure Copy Share Image
One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy,… — Gary Shteyngart Goal Copy Share Image
“Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains… — Gary Shteyngart Childhood Copy Share Image
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. — Gary Shteyngart Consent Copy Share Image
I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens. — Gary Shteyngart Great memories Copy Share Image
“I prepared for my meal in the usual fashion: fork in my left hand; my dominant right clenched into a fist on… — Gary Shteyngart Food Copy Share Image
