Words matter. These are the best Gary Shteyngart Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
That’s what I always liked about science fiction – you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it’s important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
I don’t have many possessions, apart from my books.
I’d love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There’s never a need to feel lost anymore.
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I’m looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
I love things on the decline because that’s really the natural progression of our lives. We’re born, we’re feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
A lot of the ways of advertising a book – the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore – those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You’ve got to be there. You’ve got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death – it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
If I still lived in Russia, I’d be dead… or a really effective oligarch.
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen’s first wife and co-star in many movies. I’ve done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting – it’s great.
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
I love Paul Giamatti – God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem – the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph – these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
