Books Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Brandt Legg

“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

“I reached over, opened it in the middle, and began reading Tolstoy's War and Peace. Nothing had changed. It was still a lousy book.”

— 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

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

“The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime writer who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific…

— James Ellroy

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

— Isaac Babel

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Paolo Milani