“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'm excited just to start my new novel,”
Brad Meltzer
“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
“I had written about a half-dozen short stories, and they started to feel more like part of one novel.”
Barbara Grosh
“Ukraine has reportedly started tapping Russian gas intended for European consumers.”
Sergei Kupriyanov
“Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.”
Joseph Brodsky
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