This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished.

Quote by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This...

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This...

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from...

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the...

Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the...

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time,...

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time,...

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their...

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their...

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most...

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most...

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their...

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their...

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing...

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect,...

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should...

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should...

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the...

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the...