Quote by Ernest Hemingway Download Open image “I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.” — Ernest Hemingway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings. — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was no wind, and, outside now of the warm air of the cave, heavy with smoke of both tobacco and charcoal, with the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We drove out along the coast road. There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
