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Romantics and classics are two banks of the river of public surprise. The classics are right-bank people of yesterday's tastes, artists of yesterday's celebration of life. I myself am a romantic - a pioneer who boldly moored to the left bank.
The novelist who has to observe the life of his restless heroes and tell the reader the amusing and boring moments of their life is in great difficulty when he feels the impatience of the reader.
Writers are often the worst judges of their writings.
Most often, this is what happens: it is worth writing about some event, and it ceases to torment you. Leaves alone, leaves, just like the image in the old faded photographs - every day it becomes brighter, erased. fades until only a yellow-white rectangle of paper remains.
After reading just one sentence, you can immediately wallow in dreams. I think the reader sees and feels much more than the author puts into his work. And plus everyone has their own vision of the plot. If you fully imagine the world described by the author, then you will be interested in reading.
Yes, I am more and more convinced that the point is not in old and not in new forms, but in the fact that a person writes without thinking about any forms, writes because it flows freely from his soul.
Do not go out, girls, to marry either writers or scientists. and writing, and learning - selfishness.
To write intelligently, one desire is not enough.
I am not a writer, I don’t want to be a writer, and I would consider it indecency and meanness to drag the inside of my soul and a beautiful description of feelings into their literary market.
The writer has been writing for thirty years and at the end does not know at all why he has been writing for so many years.
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.
In the meantime, my world is what it is now - to be honest, sometimes it seems to me that I do not create it, but it manifests itself through me.
In the meantime, my world is what it is now - to be honest, sometimes it seems to me that I do not create it, but it manifests itself through me.
My book is a literary work, not a historical chronicle that describes real events.
This is a book written by a man who is dust and to dust he will return.
