Anna Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

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

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports,…

— Robert Jay Lifton

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

— Celeste Ng

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it…

— Claire Messud

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

— Mike Tyson

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

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.…

— Ianthe Brautigan

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious…

— Karl Marlantes

My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly developed a…

— James Holzhauer

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that…

— Elif Batuman

I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they would learn…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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