I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn