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Being liked by many and not being boring to read is a recipe for success.

He is a writer, and writers lie.

Don't trust writers, they are great dreamers. And happy people, in fact, because the creator immediately wrote out an indulgence for them to make up an invention: they say, lie, so be it, you can.

The life of a writer is all the more terrible because those two or three hours are not every day - after all, only about two hours of creativity! the remaining hours, 22 hours a day, these empty hours exist only to prepare those two real hours of life; For normal people, life should remain intact all 24 hours.

Reading books is the best job for your imagination. Believe me, if she remains unemployed, then only you will starve.

When I read Chekhov, I get the impression that a friend very dear to my heart is telling me something in a low voice. With none of the writers whose lives I worked on did I feel such close spiritual intimacy, such deep agreement with the concept of art and life.

When and who can say about me that I sold my pen.

In China I would be a great writer; here it is much more difficult. Everything there is provided and designed for a thousand years; here everything is upside down for a thousand years.

According to some people [Mostly those who are not in danger of experiencing it firsthand. All sorts of politicians and writers immediately come to mind.], a heroic death is a wonderful thing. This argument has never convinced me, primarily because no matter how noble, elegant, restrained, proud and adamant you are, no matter how courageous and dignified you are, in the end you will still be dead. And this state, for my taste, is a little too constant.

Writers also live separately from everyone. From time to time they “to study life” go on so-called “creative” business trips, sometimes individually, but most often in teams, visit “advanced” collective farms or factories, where they are shown the front or, more precisely, the fictitious side of life and are deceived as foreigners. The vast majority of writers (and there are more than 8,000 of them in the USSR) are completely unaware of the life of their own people, and those rare ones who know and try to portray it truthfully are persecuted by the authorities, accused of aiding foreign intelligence services and sometimes punished very severely.

George Sand is a continuation of Mrs. Steel. if that one was disgusting and stupid, then this one is disgusting and impudent. Both are pretty fake. Both create illusions that they do not live in, but impose them on others. Both are completely illogical.

I decided to rename the novel. I named him Red

- That's a happy idea! I'll call this book, this checkbook shagreen

I know only too well that if a person takes up a pen, he must prepare himself for the fact that he will be scolded by a canal.