For us, the best time is always yesterday.

- Tatyana Tolstaya

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

- Tatyana Tolstaya

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

- 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 ar…

- Tatyana Tolstaya

Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you h…

- 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…

- 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…

- Tatyana Tolstaya

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

- Tatyana Tolstaya