Director Quote by Tom Stoppard

It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.

— Robert Scholes

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

“...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

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

“Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?”

— Sarah Arthur

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

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a…

— Jennifer Lawrence

“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from…

— Isaiah Berlin

Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to…

— Stellan Skarsgard

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

— Elif Batuman

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works…

— Paul Auster