Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes

#1. 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.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#2. I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#3. And wanting nothing, regretting nothing, Peters smiled gratefully at life - running past, indifferent, ungrateful, treacherous, mocking, meaningless, alien - marvelous, marvelous, marvelous.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#4. Trust is greater than love.

David O. McKay

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

Tatyana Tolstaya

#6. I'm suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.

Kristin Cashore

#7. I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#8. That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#9. The world may perish, but the meat grinder is indestructible. (112)

Tatyana Tolstaya

#10. For us, the best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#11. 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

#12. I wasn't good at school.

Celine Dion

#13. The best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#14. No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#15. Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.

Francis Quarles

#16. In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#17. Our dreams make us large.

Jack Kirby

#18. 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

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

Tatyana Tolstaya

#20. There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

Curt Mega

#21. 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

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

Tatyana Tolstaya