“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience… — Gary Shteyngart Childhood Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Girl Copy Share Image
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm… — Gary Shteyngart Feel Copy Share Image
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need… — Gary Shteyngart Away 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 Immigrant Copy Share Image
I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being… — Gary Shteyngart Acting 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
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Book 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
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think… — Gary Shteyngart All day Copy Share Image
One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to… — Gary Shteyngart Better yourself Copy Share Image
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
“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 was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking… — Gary Shteyngart Drinking Copy Share Image
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the… — Gary Shteyngart Away Copy Share Image
“That's what I admire about youngish Italians, the slow dimunition of ambition, the recognition that the best is far behind them.” — Gary Shteyngart Italians Copy Share Image
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice -… — Gary Shteyngart Different 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
