Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Anatoly Rybakov

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Anatoly Rybakov

Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat trilogy, the novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk and Bronze Bird. One of the last of his works was his memoir The Novel of Memoirs (Роман-Воспоминание) telling about all the different people he met during his long life. Writer Maria Rybakova is his granddaughter.

The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
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.
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. — © Anatoly Rybakov
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
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.
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.
All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.
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