“A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate, final argument.”
Clifford Irving
“I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.”
John Dalton
“I started a version of my French historical novel... I found it utterly fascinating.”
Tanith Lee
“Last year the virus affected 62 towns in 10 Russian regions, while since the start of 2006, already 56 towns in nine regions have been affected.”
Sergei Dankvert
“Ukraine has reportedly started tapping Russian gas intended for European consumers.”
Sergei Kupriyanov
“We certainly know that Russians participated. Russian volunteers, mercenaries, we believe, did participate with paramilitary and other Serb forces.”
Kenneth Bacon
“They were interested, but they have never really demonstrated that they were interested in the Russian proposal as the Russians had actually put it forward.”
Condoleezza Rice
