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I want to live at home. You can only write at home.

What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.

Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.

I grew up in the countryside.

I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the front or with the partisans. After the war, we children lived in a world of women. What I remember most is that women talked about love, not death.

Flaubert called himself a human pen; I would say that I am a human ear. When I walk down the street and catch words, phrases, and exclamations, I always think - how many novels disappear without a trace! Disappear into darkness.

I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.

I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same.

Love is what brings us into this world.

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.

Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

Why do I write? I have been called a writer of catastrophes, but that isn't true. I am always looking for words of love. Hate will not save us. Only love.

Art is always kind of snooping and listening in.

I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women.

I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.

I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me.

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