Sari Ellen

“I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.”
― Sam Lipsyte

“Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.”
― Gary Shteyngart