Sholokhov Quotes & Sayings

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them. — Mikhail Sholokhov

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people. — Mikhail Sholokhov

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time. — Mikhail Sholokhov

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. — Salman Rushdie

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe. — Mikhail Sholokhov