Able Quote by Toni Morrison

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

— Catherine the Great

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

— Joseph Brodsky

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

— Charles Stross

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

— Nicholas Lea

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

— Audrey Tautou

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

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

— Masha Gessen

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths…

— Joseph Brodsky

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way…

— Andrea Bocelli

I never used a translator, never thought that the journalists might not understand.

— Park Yeon-mi