“All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.”
Source : "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy. You're alone, a hermit'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”
Source : "Culture and Imperialism". Book by Edward Said, Chap 4, Sect 2, 1993.
Alexander Pushkin
Author
Anton Chekhov
Physician
Charles Dickens
Writer
Franz Kafka
Writer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Ivan Turgenev
Novelist
Leo Tolstoy
Writer
Mikhail Bulgakov
Writer
Nikolai Gogol
Dramatist