“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“[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
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
“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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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
