Anna Quote by Hanif Kureishi

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in…

— Tom Stoppard

“[The book, Anna Karenina, is] a mirror held up to the real, grimy, quotidian interactions of married life, of which romance is little more…

— Kate Moses

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the…

— Elif Batuman

I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.

— David Thewlis

“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.”

— William Faulkner

“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People are always trying to find a link between Karen's illness and a single heartbreak, but I don't associate it with anything. It definitely…

— Richard Carpenter

“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like you and…

— Matthew Norman

“I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's the heroine…

— Keira Knightley

One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up to expect…

— Elif Batuman

“Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can…

— Scott Turow