I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. — Gary Shteyngart About Copy Share Image
I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I… — Gary Shteyngart Certain Copy Share Image
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first… — Gary Shteyngart Because Copy Share Image
“The three things I had going for me: an inbred Russian willingness to get drunk and chummy, an inbred Jewish willingness to… — Gary Shteyngart Israel Copy Share Image
She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young… — Gary Shteyngart Body Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at… — Gary Shteyngart Always Copy Share Image
Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you… — Gary Shteyngart Appetizers Copy Share Image
“She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments… — Gary Shteyngart Books 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 Analysis Copy Share Image
If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and… — Gary Shteyngart Accounts Copy Share Image
“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend… — Gary Shteyngart Folly Copy Share Image
Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties… — Gary Shteyngart Affair Copy Share Image
“But what will happen, and I got this from reliable sources, is that the International Monetary Fund will skedaddle from D.C., possibly… — Gary Shteyngart Saudi arabia Copy Share Image
“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological… — Gary Shteyngart Books Copy Share Image
“I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate… — Gary Shteyngart Hate Copy Share Image
“I remember reading the Times in the subway, folding it awkwardly while leaning against the door, caught up in the words, worried… — Gary Shteyngart Beauty Copy Share Image
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will… — Gary Shteyngart Become Copy Share Image
“After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but… — Gary Shteyngart Children Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Become Copy Share Image
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings… — Gary Shteyngart Chekhov Copy Share Image
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative… — Gary Shteyngart Almost Copy Share Image
“The humiliation of growing up a Jew in the Soviet Union, of cleaning piss-stained bathrooms in the States, of worshiping a country… — Gary Shteyngart Humiliation 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
“I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a… — Gary Shteyngart Love Copy Share Image
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system. — Gary Shteyngart About 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
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the… — Gary Shteyngart Fiction Copy Share Image
“The past is haunting us. In Queens, in Manhattan, it is shadowing us, punching us in the stomach. I am small, and… — Gary Shteyngart Parenting Copy Share Image
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I… — Gary Shteyngart Am Copy Share Image
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Both Copy Share Image
“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.” — Gary Shteyngart Neighborhoods 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 Book Copy Share Image
“Cereal is food, sort of. It tastes grainy, easy and light, with a hint of false fruitiness. It tastes the way America… — Gary Shteyngart Cereal Copy Share Image
Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities -… — Gary Shteyngart Beer Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.… — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet… — Gary Shteyngart Complete Copy Share Image
“I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist… — Gary Shteyngart Marriage 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
