After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up at your desk - although frankly, I don't have a desk, I write in bed - you're supposed to show up at your bed and produce work. I think it's a little bit like work. I like to have fun with it, do things like make silly book trailers. I don't want to take this too seriously.
Gary ShteyngartI reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.
Gary ShteyngartWe are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.
Gary ShteyngartWe're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
Gary ShteyngartA writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
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