Quotes by Tatyana Tolstaya

About Tatyana Tolstaya:

Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Tatyana Tolstaya

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

Tatyana Tolstaya

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never ex...

Tatyana Tolstaya

The best time is always yesterday.

Tatyana Tolstaya

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

Tatyana Tolstaya

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

Tatyana Tolstaya

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

Tatyana Tolstaya

I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

Tatyana Tolstaya

Author Bio

  • NameTatyana Tolstaya
  • DescriptionSoviet writer
  • BornMay 3, 1951
  • CountryRussia
  • ProfessionWriter