Affairs Quote by Jean Kerr

“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from…

— Isaiah Berlin

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

— Elif Batuman

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

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

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

— Steven Pressfield

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he”

— Brandt Legg

“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the ‘power’ or…

— Isaiah Berlin

“Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own—”

— Christina Stead

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

— David Markson

“...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