“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.”
“A dream is always a place, but when you tell it, it becomes a story which is neither dream nor place.”
“I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.”
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
“Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.”
“…no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest of Europe and even in the United States, which likes vanished writers (vanished writers or millionaire writers) or the legend of vanished writers…”