Svetlana Alexievich

“Světlana Alexijevičová sepsala v koncentrované podobě to nejhorší, co se v Afghánu dělo, a žádná matka nedokáže uvěřit, že něčeho takového by…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Love is what brings us into this world.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I grew up in the countryside.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm…

— Svetlana Alexievich

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.

— Svetlana Alexievich

There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning,…

— Svetlana Alexievich

People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.

— Svetlana Alexievich

'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes…

— Svetlana Alexievich

America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, tortured and hypnotized me, and I wanted to capture it on paper. So I…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I love how humans talk.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is…

— Svetlana Alexievich

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

— Svetlana Alexievich

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.

— Svetlana Alexievich

I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.

— Svetlana Alexievich

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m…

— Svetlana Alexievich

There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.

— Svetlana Alexievich

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“A nikdo si nepoložil otázku, čím to, že nám najednou v armádě začali umírat devatenáctiletí kluci. Způsobila to vodka nebo chřipka? Nebo…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I will never write fiction.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Women’s” war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. Its own words. There…

— Svetlana Alexievich