I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
