Books Quote by William Faulkner

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

“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

“ 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

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in…

— Tom Stoppard

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

“Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can…

— Scott Turow

“The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.”

— Mem Fox

“The last time Anna had really read anything was when she was a student. José Saramago’s Blindness. It had left her perplexed. “No wonder,”…

— Nina George

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

— Maurice Herzog

“Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were…

— Sarah Schulman