“Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.” — Gary Shteyngart Alone 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 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 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 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
“Cereal is food, sort of. It tastes grainy, easy and light, with a hint of false fruitiness. It tastes the way America… — Gary Shteyngart 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
“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
“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best… — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I felt sorry for Jesus. Sorry that the miracles ascribed to him hadn’t actually made… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Academy Copy Share Image
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“a dessert made out of a dozen matzohs, a gallon of cream and amaretto liqueur, and a tub of raspberries. What I… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end… — Gary Shteyngart After death Copy Share Image
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of… — Gary Shteyngart 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 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
I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The nesting doll of memory collapses into its component pieces, each leading someplace smaller and smaller [...]” — Gary Shteyngart Memory 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 Copy Share Image
“I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like… — Gary Shteyngart 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
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many… — Gary Shteyngart Age Copy Share Image
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards! — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie… — Gary Shteyngart Acting Copy Share Image
My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was… — Gary Shteyngart Disaster 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 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
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
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
“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
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at… — Gary Shteyngart 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 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
“These kinds of lost, overeducated mama’s boys were perpetually stumbling down a corridor with two distant exits, one marked HESITANT INTELLECTUAL and… — Gary Shteyngart Child Copy Share Image
“The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and… — Gary Shteyngart Adventure Copy Share Image
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts… — Gary Shteyngart Computers Copy Share Image
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