Author of quotes: Viktor Petrovich Astafyev

I know people who have been communists all their lives, and even this party could not spoil them, they were so well brought up by their father, mother, life itself, that there is no ideology: not a fascist one. nor the communist - could not influence them.

... The consciousness of a writer is often driven by intuition and he cannot explain to himself how and why he got this or that situation in the book, this or that hero. Mediocrity, however, knows how to explain and do it willingly and often.

The time of trouble scared by the fact that it is not only depressing, it is demoralizing people.

Here's what I advise: do not separate yourself from people who take the world as it is, otherwise you will be alone. It is terrible war.

When poured hard, and it becomes obsessive and almost a sick habit, I revive their past vision. Here I go slowly through the forest, keenly listening and peering into the depths of it, noticing things in this movement, take off, scream, nautre forest rookery. Every exit to the forest is weather or not present, holiday, expectation of a miracle forest, good luck, renewal of the soul, which only here, in the depths, away from the modern hustle and bustle, finds a full, deep peace. Go, go and my heart is worn out, sick, too, calms down, thick forest, quiet dal, floods sleep.
On taiga, the eternal Russian forest and all times of the year on Russian soil, what is happening, what can be more beautiful than you? Thank God that speck of dust sowed me on this earth, I thank my lucky stars for what she did to me forest tramp and gave vhave such miracles more beautiful than any tales.

And the Yenisei, not sleeping at night, even cruelly bull on the other side, sawing spruce peaks over the distant pass, the silent village behind my back, grasshopper, from last forces working against the fall in the nettles, it seems to be all alone in the world, the grass, as if cast in metal, - it was my home, near and alarming.