Aphorisms Quote by Haruki Murakami

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have…

— Haruki Murakami

“Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami

I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.

— Joseph Brodsky

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp.…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.

— Ken Kalfus

“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.”

— Salman Rushdie

I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.

— Vladimir Sorokin

“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too far from…

— Lev Shestov

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana