I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action.… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
