Anatoly Rybakov Quotes & Sayings

5 most famous Anatoly Rybakov quotes and sayings (writer).

“All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.”

“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.”

“I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.”

“The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.”

“For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.”

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