Mark Manson Quotes

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

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.

You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

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

'War and Peace' holds a strange place in literary history, participating in the crowning of realism as a substantial and serious literary mode in America, even as the novel also contributed to the argument that historical fiction could be by nature dangerous, illegitimate, and inaccurate.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.

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

Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.

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.

When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.