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
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.