The writer's creative self-portrait

What are the main conclusions you draw from your creative path so far? - Without taking the question lightly, I can say that when a writer has tortured the innocent white paper for nearly six decades, something has surely fallen into the literature basket that would give people a reason to say two nice words about him. First - age - it has two sides. One is that for the most part, life has passed and many of the joys and good feelings, creative delights, impressions of youth remain in it, until the day when a person has to take stock and see what is left for him in the future. And then he realizes - and this is the second side - that he has not completed too many things and regrets that perhaps he will not complete them. - What do you personally put into the first part and what into the second? - The river of life passes before us, passes spontaneously, but few look into the thousands of features, nuances, colors, into earthly and heavenly reality, into the existence of people and their struggle for their self-development as individuals, into getting to know the springs of social development. However, without some impetus, without a random and unexpected coincidence of circumstances, similar to the awakening of his consciousness of the diversity and beauty of the world described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it is not possible to direct the human spirit to the source of Creativity. - Perhaps this is a natural phenomenon, but how has it been reflected in your work? - I am mentally going back to draw examples of the influence of life (in the broadest sense) on the development of a whole series of writers, from the closed world of individualism to the wide horizon of life's phenomena, of suffering and human dramas, of people's struggle for a better life, to remember my personal experience on this issue. This experience covers the period from 1905 to the present day. - You place the emphasis on reality, as if it were what makes the writer? - It often happens that the events of historical life act on the writer in one direction or another, and if he is not prepared to reveal their meaning, he would hardly be able to find his creative path. We discover similar hesitations in many writers, which either keep them in the stream of tradition and conservatism, or open up a wide path for them to the heights of their era.