All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.
Svetlana AlexievichI don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different.
Svetlana AlexievichNobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.
Svetlana AlexievichReality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
Svetlana AlexievichFreedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.
Svetlana Alexievich