Books Quote by Vladimir Putin

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

— Andrea Bocelli

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

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

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

— Amor Towles

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

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that…

— Elif Batuman

While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy,…

— Alexander Weinstein

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a…

— John Irving

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there.…

— Richard Lewis