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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

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 have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“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 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

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

— Paolo Milani

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

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

— Elif Batuman

“Epilogues are for Tolstoy”

— E.M. Forster

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

— David Markson

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

— David Adams Richards

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