Books Quote by Jennifer Niven

“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

“You had two prerequisites.” Regin plopped down on a snowbank. “And I do believe I have Russian ex-mil contacts, and I speak the language-“…

— Kresley Cole

“There is no happiness like this: quiet mornings, light from the river, the weekend ahead. They lived a Russian life, a rich life, interwoven,…

— james salter

“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

“Dostoyevsky says, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” (The Brothers Karamazov).”

— Peter Kreeft

“reaching through time and speaking directly to him: Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. “I recognize myself”

— Michael Finkel

“Nobody knew literature and history better than these people, nobody could write better Russian than they, nobody despised our times more profoundly. For these…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Our specialty is stories about little girls who break their spines and get adopted by grouchy old men because they smile so much. You'd…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— alla Danishavsky

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami

“He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A great many…

— Leo Tolstoy