- Journalist | May 31, 1948 -
There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.
Svetlana Alexievich
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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.
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I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.
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Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important.
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I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.
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When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other.
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Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
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I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.
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In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone.
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I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.
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I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.
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I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.
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