Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Writing

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  • In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.

  • When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.

    Source: www.independent.co.uk
  • The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

  • I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

    "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.
  • In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. As I approached the end of my sentences I grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. My memory found room for them! It worked. But more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all I had memorized.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Born: December 11, 1918
  • Died: August 3, 2008
  • Occupation: Novelist