Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, primarily known as MaximGorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Around fifteen years before success as a writer, he frequently changed jobs and roamed across the Russian Empire; these experiences would later influence his writing. Gorky's most famous works were The Lower Depths, Twenty-six Men and a Girl, The Song of the Stormy...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth28 March 1868
CountryRussian Federation
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!