Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas.
I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature.
I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.
I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed.
I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside.
I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.
I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being.
I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death.
I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.
I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different.
I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.
I grew up in the countryside.
I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world.
I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human soul. I am drawn to that small space called a human being... a single individual. In reality, that is where everything happens.
I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me.
I love how humans talk.
I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu.
I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.
I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.
I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.'
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31 May, 1948
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