Books Quote by Charles Bukowski

“...Tolstoy's characters seem to come forward to meet you, very conscious of the impression they are making on one another and on the reader.”

— Stephen Spender

“No. We never have read a line of Tolstoy. We studiously avoid doing so.”

— Frederick Rolfe

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

“Every real reader must read Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: the whole of his/her life of reading will change its meaning.”

— Paolo Milani

“Tolstoy had 13 kids and still wrote War & Peace.”

— Steven Pressfield

“Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.”

— David Markson

“If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

— Isaac Babel

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

— Simon Schama

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important…

— Lev Shestov

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?”

— Sarah Arthur

“There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer