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# "Nine-tenths of writers will die off, nobody will remember them, such is their specific (weight)
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- Published: 2024-11-19T08:01:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:32:05.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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"Nine-tenths of writers will die off, nobody will remember them, such is their specific (weight). Whereas I shall shine through the ages. You have seen to it that Gorky wants for nothing, and Tolstoy receives 36,000 roubles a month. Why am I not provided for in the same way?"

From an appeal by Marietta Shaginyan to Alexander Shcherbakov, organising secretary of the Union of Writers, in September 1935.

Mine!