Dave Morris Quotes

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

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 is, the small details which make up life.

A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.

In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel 'War and Peace' to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for the new edition of the novel, which he referred to by its original title,1805.

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

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

'War and Peace' may be the most epic thing ever created by a human being.

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

By the 1880s, English translations of both the French and the Russian editions were available, and Americans began to read 'War and Peace.'

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.

I really enjoyed reading 'The Da Vinci Code,' but from a literary standpoint, the book did not live up to the hype.

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.