Mikhail Sholokhov Quotes

Mikhail Sholokhov — Russian Novelist born on May 24, 1905, died on February 21, 1984

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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