Quotes by : Isaac Babel

Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough....

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to....

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.

Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a....