Dystopian Author Quotes

Yevgeny Zamyatin Dogma, static positions, consonance – all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Yevgeny Zamyatin Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Yevgeny Zamyatin The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity – but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

Yevgeny Zamyatin What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons… we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless Why?” and “What […]

Yevgeny Zamyatin The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl’s sense. (The North”)”

Yevgeny Zamyatin Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Yevgeny Zamyatin what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another […]

Yevgeny Zamyatin And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is […]

Yevgeny Zamyatin To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.