Books Quote by Dean Young

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

— Dean Young

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that…

— Elif Batuman

“Someday I want to write a sixteen-syllable Haiku about the death and disappearance of a monosyllabic word.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really…

— Tuppence Middleton

“tastes and tales from Russia = I could not find the book in library or book store.”

— alla Danishavsky

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

“I'm not stupid, romantic, or a busy Russian novelist.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“NEW HAIKU One breathy vowel mists the glass warming window panes crystalled with snow Robin Glasser”

— Robin Glasser

One of the most famous lines in contemporary Russian poetry is "Erica makes four copies and that's enough." That's the ethos we're aiming for.…

— Masha Gessen