Books Quote by Melvyn Bragg

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark…

— Jessica Pare

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned…

— Twyla Tharp

I love 'Anna Karenina.' It's in the top five books on my list. Tolstoy is unsurpassed in combining the grand with the trivial, that…

— Susan Minot

While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy,…

— Alexander Weinstein

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them…

— Ruskin Bond

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

— Norman MacCaig

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.

— Stephen Karam

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'…

— Marisha Pessl

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to…

— Julius Erving

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

— Paul Auster