Joseph-conrad Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“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

“In the broad field of Russian letters in the USSR, I was the one and only literary wolf. I was advised to dye my…

— Mikhael Bulgakov

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

— Robert Frost

“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”

— Slavoj Žižek

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

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To the Jews who wanted a land of their own, where they could organise themselves and live according to their traditions, Stalin had offered…

— Primo Levi

“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The great writer…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

— Isaac Babel