255 Quotes by Svetlana Alexievich

Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.

No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.

Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave.

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.

Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.