“This book is the first meeting of Astvatsaturov the prose writer with Astvatsaturov the philologist. Personal experience is mixed with literary observations, biographical details turn out to be a continuation (or, on the contrary, the source) of the writers’ creativity, and everything together forms an elegant mosaic, not without some practical usefulness: after all, many people write today, and you can see how others write some cunning tricks come out, it’s always useful” (Galina Yuzefovich).