Isaac Babel Quotes
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
1932 Guy de Maupassant.
"My First Fee". Story by Isaac Babel, 1922 - 1928.
"Guy de Maupassant" (1924) (translation byWalter Morison)
If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.
"The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time". Book edited by Daniel S. Burt, July 1998.
She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: 'Give baby a kiss...'
Isaac Babel (2005). “Red Cavalry and Other Stories”, p.65, Penguin UK