Tolstoy Quotes

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it.

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.