255 Quotes by Svetlana Alexievich

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

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.

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other.

I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.

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.

A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.

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.