Amusing Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

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

— Isaac Babel

“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

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

— Simon Schama

“No. We never have read a line of Tolstoy. We studiously avoid doing so.”

— Frederick Rolfe

“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

“...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

“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?”

— Jo Nesbø

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

“As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages of his…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster