Books Quote by Elif Batuman

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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. I think…

— Gary Shteyngart

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned,…

— Vladimir Putin

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

I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period.

— Amor Towles

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic,…

— Richard Elman

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be…

— Ian Frazier

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

— Jamie Hince

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it…

— Claire Messud

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a…

— John Irving

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

— Tobias Wolff

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

— Audrey Tautou