My men

""Sobakin, Mikhalkov, Voinovich, Daneliya, Mikhail Gorbachev — that they are the architects of my life. I, of course, and she too made a contribution, namely labour. I wrote twenty volumes, and that for me and no one could do. Nevertheless: literary talent is very difficult to detect. The talent of the singer or artist — easily. A person sings or draws — immediately noticeable. And writing... All know how to write, universal literacy with the thirty-seventh year. I could not recognize his literary abilities. Worked as a teacher of singing: bahadili GU-si... And so all his life. My destiny would die in me. I would go nervous and unhappy. But I escaped this fate. I'm always doing what I wonder. This is happiness. I won my life.""