Books Quote by Robert Bringhurst

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky.

— Elif Batuman

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

— Amor Towles

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

— Jamie Hince

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really…

— Robert Hass

Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is…

— Andre Leon Talley

I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really…

— Tuppence Middleton

It is much easier for me to define what makes a novel French or Russian, but defining the characteristics of an Australian novel are…

— Robert Dessaix