I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.
Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie. . . it's all some kind of an escape.
In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.
Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.