Gary Shteyngart People Quotations

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 think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.

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

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?

We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.