“How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.” — Gary Shteyngart Help Copy Share Image
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. — Gary Shteyngart Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.” — Gary Shteyngart Decision Copy Share Image
“Just don’t write like a self -hating Jew,” my father is whispering into my ear.” — Gary Shteyngart Father Copy Share Image
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] — Gary Shteyngart Art Copy Share Image
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart. — Gary Shteyngart Heart Copy Share Image
Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Whatever you may think of Judaism, Lyuba, in the end it’s just a codified system of anxieties.” — Gary Shteyngart Anxieties 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
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 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
“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
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 love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings… — Gary Shteyngart 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 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The situation was clear: They were two astronauts on a cold planet. He was, for his part, a gentle dissembler, a dodgy… — Gary Shteyngart Astronauts Copy Share Image
I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I… — Gary Shteyngart Cruelty Copy Share Image
“The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will… — Gary Shteyngart Capitalism Copy Share Image
You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when… — Gary Shteyngart Ancestor Copy Share Image
“A few hours later, lying on a mat during rest time, Vladimir embraced the tiny curled-up creature beside him, his first best… — Gary Shteyngart Side by side 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
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being. — Gary Shteyngart Consciousness Copy Share Image
“As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.” — Gary Shteyngart Creative spirit Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“with a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students” — Gary Shteyngart Law students Copy Share Image
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. — Gary Shteyngart 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 wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.” — Gary Shteyngart Childhood Copy Share Image
Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me. — Gary Shteyngart Ability Copy Share Image
“It's special because it's not special, and hence it makes Cohen feel special for choosing it.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
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