Busy Quote by Martin Cruz Smith

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

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

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

— Robert Frost

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Jamie Hince

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

— Joseph Brodsky

I've got more than enough for my needs [for social life in Moscow], let's put it that way.

— Edward Snowden

It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who has never been schooled in Russian.

— Masha Gessen

I don't really have a bucket list, but if I did, one entry would be to dust off my college Russian and spend a…

— Erik Larson

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 am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

“I'm not stupid, romantic, or a busy Russian novelist.”

— Rabih Alameddine