Book Quote by Ian Frazier

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

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

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

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite…

— Martin Cruz Smith

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Jamie Hince

I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment…

— Gordon T. Smith

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

There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in Russian, not…

— Alexander Vassiliev

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

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Amor Towles