Quotes by Mikhail Sholokhov

About Mikhail Sholokhov:

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily the famous And Quiet Flows the Don.
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Boshafte Wahrheiten sind nur dann gut, wenn kein Fremder sie liest.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Mikhail Sholokhov

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

Mikhail Sholokhov

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Mikhail Sholokhov

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Author Bio

  • NameMikhail Sholokhov
  • DescriptionSoviet writer
  • AliasesMikhail Sholokhov
  • BornMay 24, 1905
  • DiedFebruary 21, 1984
  • CountryRussian Empire; Soviet Union
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsState Stalin Prize; Medal "For The Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Order Of Lenin; Hero Of Socialist Labour; Order Of The October Revolution; Order Of The Patriotic War 1st Class; Nobel Prize In Literature