Dystopian Author Quotes

Anthony Trollope Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve […]

Anthony Trollope There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Anthony Trollope Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

Gary Shteyngart Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

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

Gary Shteyngart Reading is difficult. People just aren’t meant to read anymore. We’re in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after […]

Gary Shteyngart 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 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 write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I’ve been perfecting one voice – in different […]