Marina Lewycka

“It’s funny, but when I talk about this business of my father and Valentina with my women friends, they’re absolutely appalled. They…

— Marina Lewycka

“There is no solution. I can see no possibility of peace in my lifetime. So long as they continue with their attacks,…

— Marina Lewycka

“Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be…

— Marina Lewycka

“Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.”

— Marina Lewycka

“A man needs enough...no less, no more. ”

— Marina Lewycka

“Da, sve otkako je čovjek prvi put digao glavu iznad ulaza u špilju da pogleda zvijezde na nebu i pomislio kako bi…

— Marina Lewycka

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.

— Marina Lewycka

“Only the image of my father is unclear, as if something obscure but vital has been blotted out, and only the raging…

— Marina Lewycka

“Pappa, just stop and think for a minute. Is this really what you want?” “Hmm. What I want?” (he pronounces it ‘vat…

— Marina Lewycka

“In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen…

— Marina Lewycka

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie…

— Marina Lewycka

“With a feeling of despondency so intense that it was almost pleasurable, he got out his guitar. So this was to be…

— Marina Lewycka

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she…

— Marina Lewycka

“...the wind in Ukraina blows very hard and cold at this moment. But it will not always be so. And where there…

— Marina Lewycka

“Svaka žena čeka gospodina Browna i njegovu tajanstvenu izbočinu, vjernoga onkraj groba; onda odjednom shvati da ono što čeka uopće ne postoji…

— Marina Lewycka

“Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can…

— Marina Lewycka

“Ireland, like Ukraine, is a largely rural country which suffers from its proximity to a more powerful industrialised neighbour. Ireland’s contribution to…

— Marina Lewycka

“When I saw the car pulling into the driveway and I saw her getting out and walking towards the house, can you…

— Marina Lewycka

“The tractor must always be used as an aid to nature, not as a driver of nature. The tractor must work in…

— Marina Lewycka