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Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart
American Writer
Born: Jul 5, 1972
America Fiction Love Think Where You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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. Gary Shteyngart
You Pool Swimming Dive Civilization Bottom Takes Taking Look Got How Nose Notes Swimming Pool Away
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. Gary Shteyngart
Good Be Nice Somebody Nice Would Would-Be Read American Fiction
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. Gary Shteyngart
Relationship Everything About America Just Certainly
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand. Gary Shteyngart
Work Good Me Mercy Become Other Entirely Parts Makes Brain Hand Off Submissive Quiet Fiction Turn Turn-Off
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. Gary Shteyngart
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system. Gary Shteyngart
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. Gary Shteyngart
Russia Dead Still Effective Really Lived
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. Gary Shteyngart
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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. Gary Shteyngart
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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. Gary Shteyngart
Love Natural First Inevitable Progression Our Our Lives Born Feisty Couple Because Years Begins Decline Natural Progression Then Really Lives Things
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. Gary Shteyngart
Love Great You Class Wife First YouTube Films Other Took Some Indie Allen Look Louise Done Woody Movies Acting Acting Class Many
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. Gary Shteyngart
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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. Gary Shteyngart
Book Somebody Bookstore Ways Those Diminish Rapidly Sees Advertising Cover Lot Model Going Move Whether Subway Electronic Things
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it. Gary Shteyngart
People Will Become Think More Only Poetry Write Like Read Fiction Happen Who
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. Gary Shteyngart
Time Best Me Lost Tells About Never Feel Am iPhone Where Anymore Thing Need
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
Great You Smell Think Too Books Paper Those Support Feel Like Know Industry Read Printed Real Thing Last

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