Books Quote by Sarah Weinman

“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the…

— Elif Batuman

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

Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently…

— Edmund White

Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish -…

— Hanif Kureishi

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel.

— Maurice Herzog

“I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Celeste Ng is such a gifted writer.

— Lexi Underwood

“Anna is the sort of woman who writers write about, Tom. Somewhere in the third act, women like her save characters like you and…

— Matthew Norman

I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record.

— David Thewlis

“It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know…

— Elif Batuman