My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

Next quotes

• Mikhail Bulgakov:

  Literature has become my life.

• Mikhail Bulgakov:

  Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the

• Alexander Berkman:

  War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irres

• Alexander Berkman:

  War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

• Andrei Platonov:

  I lived and languished.

• Andrei Platonov:

  If they don't think, people act senselessly.

• Andrei Platonov:

  My body gets weak without truth.

• Andrei Platonov:

  We hate our squalor.

• Andrei Platonov:

  Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

• Andrei Platonov:

  I have a trend of my own.