Quotes from Mikhael Bulgakov

In the broad field of Russian letters in the USSR, I was the one and only literary wolf. I was advised to dye my fur. Absurd advice. You can dye a wolf, clip a wolf - he still doesn't look like a poodle. - to Joseph Stalin, May 30, 1931

It's a fiendishly difficult thing to do because paper that has been written on doesn't burn easily.