Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.”

— Tove Jansson

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“He saw a world he had not seen before; a world made not for mastery but for living. Once seen it was a very…

— Don Berry

“He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed…

— Josip Novakovich

“A Russian who uses his imagination is done for. I certainly never use mine.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Being that most everyone knew Latvian and Russian, it was the only indication.”

— Jeff Keenan

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

“For a moment, he thought he sensed, beneath the visible world, some blind infrastructure connecting the two of them, or the three of them,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“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

“Maybe this had been something like the colour blindness of the ancient Greeks, before words had ushered in vision - we do not see…

— Jennifer duBois

“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all…

— Ernest Hemingway