The niece of the dictionary. Writers about writing

The book offered to your attention is a collection of stories, jokes, jokes, the authors and heroes of which were famous writers and poets from ancient times to the present day.

The compilers do not claim that they have collected all stories. This is strongly impossible - there are more of them than the papers on which they could be published. We do not dare to assert that everything that is collected here is true or happened exactly as this is described. The reader probably heard or read many stories and jokes “with a beard” in other variations and even with other heroes. The salt of many of the stories described here is not exactly, but that the famous writers, poets, artists, actors do not become monuments, do not bronze, do not lose human qualities that our perceptions. However, our goal in no case is a kind of debunking the great. We just wanted to show that the most talented person is, first of all, a person cannot change his nature, wanted to reveal other aspects of the talent and personality of famous people, to tell non -academic facts from their biographies and the lives of their works and heroes.