Author of quotes: Valery Popov

In a small town, people look more noticeable and larger, relationships are more visible, you will be recognized and appreciated faster - in a metropolis you go through “misunderstood and unrecognized” to gray hair, but here everything is in plain sight.

The place of an idol, a trendsetter in literary fashion, a talented young writer who is supposed to be admired, was already taken by his close friend Veselov. Don't tease a friend? Dovlatov, however, could. But in time I felt: Olympus is too small.

I do not understand and dislike people who need only be tired to consider the day spent with benefit.

That's why literature attracts, that everything is available there that you think hard about in real life - and you'll be afraid, you won't do it.

If you don't know what to do, do it yourself.

Of course, you can always find good reasons not to do something. But everyone is judged by the results, and not by the reasons that got in the way!

After all, the most pleasant people to feel that they are good, and I, in a stupid turnover hitting, gave them the opportunity.