Leadership Quote by Valerian Maykov

“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov,…

— Mirra Ginsburg

“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

— John Dos Passos

“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict,…

— Alexander Weinstein

“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had died. He…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic,…

— Richard Elman

I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to…

— Robert Hass

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of the poet,…

— Zhang Yungi

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