Lev tolstoy Quotes

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he…

— Scott Glenn

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy…

— Adam Hochschild

I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they…

— Peter Orner

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

— Paul Auster

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

I agree with the Lev Tolstoy quote completely, but I also feel like there's more to it. What is a happy family…

— Peter Orner

While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and…

— Alexander Weinstein

I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and…

— Vera Nazarian

I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all…

— William Kristol