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Anatoly Rybakov Quotes

A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

Anatoly Rybakov

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: russian
Birth: January 14, 1911 - December 23, 1998

Topics

Heart Memory People Own Tool Writer

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

Joakim Noah

Home Year You Back Know Grandfather

I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?

Anant Agarwal

Learning Writing Energy Think Why

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

John le Carre

Age Time Myself Stress Intelligence

I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.

Stellan Skarsgard

Advice Help Never Give Kids Them

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.

Siri Hustvedt

People Writing Doctor Classic Agree

At its root, 'quit' means 'to set free' - think of an acquittal in a court of law - and to quit is often to be liberated.

Steve Rushin

Law Free Think Quit Court Means

I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!

Tom Ford

Change Daughter Time Fashion Vintage

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

Ron Shock

Life Blessing Me Done Say Way

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Louis Sullivan

Time Words Mankind Most Saturated

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

Colson Whitehead

Today End Talking You Race Write

I'm trying to be truthful.

Bonnie Hunt

Trying Truthful

I'm a hugger and a lover and a dancer!

Anya Taylor-Joy

Lover Dancer