Dies Quote by Jon Winokur

If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an…

— Paul Neilan

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

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

— Christina Stead

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

“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

In 'A Confession,' Tolstoy found meaning that he could hold on to, and he lived for another 30 years.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

— Steven Pressfield

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

— David Markson

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

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

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

— Elif Batuman

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through…

— Mel Brooks