“I asked at my local cinema, if they were going to show Anna Karenina, they said no, but they had Anaconda.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15.… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“On one memorable occasion Vronsky played all the parts in an abridged version of Anna Karenina when the rest of the cast… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and… — Joel Carmichael Copy Share Image
Wishing there were more children's books like 'The Snowy Day' is a bit like wishing there were more grownup books like 'Anna… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“That summer was a long hot one, unusual for Ireland. As the days grew hotter the summer seemed endless. Gertrude was suspended… — Anne McCabe Copy Share Image
'Anna Karenina.' I read it in college. I was so engrossed that I couldn't stop reading it and neglected all my other… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
“[The book, Anna Karenina, is] a mirror held up to the real, grimy, quotidian interactions of married life, of which romance is… — Kate Moses Copy Share Image
“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When they returned to Filigree Street, Mori refused even to go upstairs. Instead he hid under a quilt in the parlour with… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The central theme of Anna Karenina," he said, "is that a rural life of moral simplicity, despite its monotony, is the preferable… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white… — Rory Gilmore Copy Share Image
“Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina by observing: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Business is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck… — Anonymous 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
It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The hormones also made me more emotional. I found myself snapping at Chad and Jeff for blasting The Rock and Stone Cold… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image