Kitsch Quote by John Bayley

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

— David Markson

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.

— Robert Scholes

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women.

— Twyla Tharp

“...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

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

— A. N. Wilson

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

— Isaac Babel

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

— Steven Pressfield

“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

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

— Paolo Milani

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

— Mike Tyson

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