Books Quote by Elif Batuman

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

— Elif Batuman

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

— Audrey Tautou

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

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to…

— Masha Gessen

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is…

— Andre Leon Talley

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

— Robert Gottlieb

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have…

— Debra Dean

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of…

— Masha Gessen

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless…

— Harrison Salisbury