away. "From the book of dream interpretations": if a poet saw in a dream his money coming to an end -is that's for new poetry. Savrasov paintedThe Rooks Have Come Back quickly - he was afraid the rooks would fly away. The favorite theme of Chekhov: There was a wonderful and healthy forest which a forester was invited to take care of, the forest quickly withered and died. Assiduity is also a talent. Some writers should be photographed (from) the rear end instead of full face. Turgenev lacked the health of Leo Tolstoy and the disease of Dostoevsky. I believe that the foundations of literature are imagination and memories, that's why I never use notebooks. When you take a phrase from your book of notes, and put it into the text that you're writing in a different moment of time and in a different mood, that phrase shrivels and dies. I recognize notebooks only as a genre. References 2. Frank Westerman, Engineers of the Soul, Overlook Press, 2011. Story of a Life - Autobiography Volume 1: Story of a Life - Childhood and Schooldays (pub. 1964) Volume 2: Slow Approach of Thunder (pub. 1965) Volume 3: In That Dawn (pub. 1967) Volume 4: Years of Hope (pub. 1968) Volume 5: Southern Adventure (pub. 1969) Volume 6: The Restless Years (pub. 1974) External links "The Golden Tench" and "Good Luck Flower", two stories from Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories, FLPH, Moscow, 1959. "Reminiscences of Babel" from Dissonant voices in Soviet literature (1962) "Pasternak's Wake" from Contemporaries (1962) Konstantin Paustovsky bio, photos and works in Russian 1892 births 1968 deaths Writers from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Zaporozhian Cossacks Russian people of Polish descent Russian people of Turkish descent Russian male novelists Soviet novelists Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Russian male short story writers Soviet short story writers 20th-century Russian short story writers Soviet dissidents 20th-century Russian journalists Russian military personnel of World War I Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour