Top 80 Gary Shteyngart Quotes (2024 Update)
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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “It’s just a passing thing,′ Vishnu had told me about his girlfriend’s beliefs. ‘It’s like their way of assimilating into the West. It’s like a social club. One more generation, it’ll be over.”

51. “It’s just a passing thing,′ Vishnu had told me about his girlfriend’s beliefs. ‘It’s like their way of assimilating into the West. It’s like a social club. One more generation, it’ll be over.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.”

52. “We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.”

53. “The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn’t even have inhalers back in Russia.”

54. “I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn’t even have inhalers back in Russia.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.”

55. “I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Let’s see if I can write about something other than my heart.”

56. “Let’s see if I can write about something other than my heart.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.”

57. “The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.”

58. “Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “People always write on my Facebook that they’ve seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.”

59. “People always write on my Facebook that they’ve seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.”

60. “American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.”

61. “Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.”

62. “My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.”

63. “Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.”

65. “I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “1979. Coming to America after a childhood spent in the Soviet Union is equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor.”

66. “1979. Coming to America after a childhood spent in the Soviet Union is equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.”

67. “I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.”

68. “Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “He knows that people marked for greater things are often the least happy of all.”

69. “He knows that people marked for greater things are often the least happy of all.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Also, I’ve spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I’m learning to work my apparat’s screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”

70. “Also, I’ve spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I’m learning to work my apparat’s screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn’t want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.”

71. “I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn’t want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Folks had draped strange flags over their iron porticoes with drawings of pineapples and the word WELCOME. The South was like that, festive but impenetrable.”

72. “Folks had draped strange flags over their iron porticoes with drawings of pineapples and the word WELCOME. The South was like that, festive but impenetrable.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!”

73. “All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.”

74. “Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “That’s what I always liked about science fiction – you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.”

75. “That’s what I always liked about science fiction – you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I don’t have many possessions, apart from my books.”

76. “I don’t have many possessions, apart from my books.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true. The Soviet system worked best when its adults – its men, in particular – were welcomed to stay at the emotional level of not-particularly-advanced teenagers.”

77. “The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true. The Soviet system worked best when its adults – its men, in particular – were welcomed to stay at the emotional level of not-particularly-advanced teenagers.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”

78. “Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.”

79. “Now he understood why he hated Luis Goodman and other writers so much. He was a damaged person, but not damaged enough to make a life out of it.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I’ve been perfecting one voice – in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.”

80. “I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I’ve been perfecting one voice – in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.”

— Gary Shteyngart

Gary Shteyngart Quote: “I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death – it really lets them see mortality very clearly.”

81. “I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death – it really lets them see mortality very clearly.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Rumination is the coin of my realm. Interiority breeds interiority.”

82. “Rumination is the coin of my realm. Interiority breeds interiority.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “Because rich people were excused from the suffering of the world, they had to invent their own more elaborate and personalized forms of suffering and then to inflict baroque versions of that stunted inferiority onto others.”

83. “Because rich people were excused from the suffering of the world, they had to invent their own more elaborate and personalized forms of suffering and then to inflict baroque versions of that stunted inferiority onto others.”

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Gary Shteyngart Quote: “In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.”

84. “In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.”

— Gary Shteyngart

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