The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record. — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you? — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books. — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance. — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“She resembled Anna Karenina, the kind of woman that if you want to kill, you have to hit with a train.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip,… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity.… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
When I got into "Anna Karenina" and "Brothers Karamazov" and "Crime and Punishment," that was the stuff that - that had a… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most… — john gardner Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who'll… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I think there really is no other way to write a long, serious novel. You work, shelve it for a while, work,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Lots of talk lately about the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL that seems to be exclusively masculine. And how many of the characters in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“Fictional Characters" Do they ever want to escape? Climb out of the white pages and enter our world? Holden Caulfield slipping in… — Danusha Laméris Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves,… — Tolstoy Leo Graf Copy Share Image
“Children write essays in school about the unhappy, tragic, doomed life of Anna Karenina . But was Anna really unhappy? She chose… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“He closed his eyes. This bed was a wedding gift from friends he had not seen in years. He tried to remember… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina} — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
![“In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem…” quote by Stephen Greenblatt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5f/stephen-greenblatt-10786_anna_in-high-school-i-read-lev-tolstoy-s-anna_2323091.jpg)
![“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life. Anna [Karenina] could have chosen another way to take her life. But the motif of…” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/681/milan-kundera-120_beauty_human-lives-are-composed-like-music-guid_2017337.jpg)
