19th century Quote by Gary Shteyngart

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

— Amor Towles

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

“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first time, the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

— Jamie Hince

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

— Robert Gottlieb

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

— alla Danishavsky

I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like…

— Jane Birkin

“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

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 belong to Russian literature, but I am an American citizen, and I think it's the best possible combination.

— Joseph Brodsky

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