Kurkov Quotes

#1. Kurkov loves his weltschmerz as much as the next guy
but he doesn't see why weltschmerz shouldn't come bundled up with a narrative that kicks a little bit of ass
the edge of the left cheek, say.

Nick Hornby

#2. There are teachers who say that one of the main obstacles, spiritual obstacles, for westerners is a sense of unworthiness, a self-limiting sense of what's possible for them in a human life.

Roland Merullo

#3. Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies.

Andrey Kurkov

#4. Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Frank Lampard

#5. The past believed in dates. And everyone's life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.

Andrey Kurkov

#6. Yesterday, Parliament announced an open forum day. Everyone was given the chance to speak. Or, in other words, no one listened.

Andrey Kurkov

#7. Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

Andrey Kurkov

#8. In one of my novels I described a secret factory, hidden away in the Ural Mountains, which produced artificial meteorites. The dream of the Soviet military's high command: bombarding the United States with artificial meteorites, while making people believe they were real ones.

Andrey Kurkov

#9. I do not want to believe everything I read in the press. The papers, particularly the online editions, publish a lot of false news.

Andrey Kurkov

#10. I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Edvard Munch

#11. Only in Italy are elections as carnivalesque as they are here. Except, in Ukraine, the carnival is always anarchistic, and more or less uncontrollable.

Andrey Kurkov

#12. I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my 'idea of them.

Anais Nin

#13. On 4 March, Yuriy Kravchenko was found dead in his dacha. Official verdict: suicide. In spite of the fact that Kravchenko was killed by two bullets in his head.

Andrey Kurkov

#14. Inna Bohoslovska is scaring everyone by repeating that Putin wants war.

Andrey Kurkov

#15. Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating.

Chris Kilham

#16. I will have to pay more attention to Russian weather forecasts in future, to check that Kiev, Warsaw, Riga and Vilnius are not included in their maps.

Andrey Kurkov