Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes

• Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Art, Complaining, Needs

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• En Rusia, la gente sufre la quietud del tiempo.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Russia, People, Suffering

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• Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

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  Writing, Goal, Perspective

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• If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Adversity, Pressure, Censorship

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• For us, the best time is always yesterday.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Yesterday, Nostalgia, Best Times

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• I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

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  Thinking, Energy, Enough

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• If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Russia, Patterns, States

  "A Tolstoy Speaks, And Russia Listens". Interview with Celestine Bohlen, www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2003.

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• Lees, mueves los labios, descifras las palabras, y es como si estuvieras en dos sitios a la vez: estás sentado o tumbado con las piernas enroscadas, la mano tanteando el cuenco, pero puedes ver mundos distintos, mundos lejanos que quizá nunca existieron pero que siguen pareciendo reales. Corres o navegas o corres en trineo -huyes de alguien, o tú mismo has decidido atacar-, tu corazón palpita, la vida pasa volando, y es maravilloso: puedes vivir tantas vidas diferentes como libros hay para leer.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Running, Real, Lying

  Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

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• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Attitude, Smart, Thinking

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• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

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  Art, World

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• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Art, Creating, Stories

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• I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  Russia, Subjects

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• People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

  Tatyana Tolstaya

  People, Next, Election

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