Books Quote by Mason Currey

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn…

— Donald E. Westlake

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." —Vladimir Nabokov”

— Leslie Langtry

“Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or…

— Roberto Bolaño

Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

— Vladimir Sorokin

“When asked about rewriting, Ernest Hemingway said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times before he was satisfied. Vladimir…

— Susan M. Tiberghien

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a…

— Sam Mendes

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

— Joseph Brodsky

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

— Ernest Hemingway

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through…

— Mel Brooks

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

— Robert Frost

“Like his Russian contemporary Dostoevsky — who wrote his entire novel ‘The Gambler’ in three weeks to pay off desperate gambling debts — Mendeleev…

— Sam Kean