Top 35 Quotes About Tolstoy Writing

#1. It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.

Lights

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#2. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Martha Grimes

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#3. Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary. Or,

Steven D. Levitt

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#4. It's like, God, I'm in my 80s. Nobody, when I die, is going to say, 'How young?' They're going to say she had a great ride.

Joan Rivers

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#5. So he immolated himself. He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile. His daughters were satisfied, so he thought that he had done the best thing he could; but it was a family crime, and father and daughters were accomplices.

Honore De Balzac

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#6. All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

Jean Rhys

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#7. I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

Leo Tolstoy

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#8. The Lord gave them rest on every side according to all He had sworn to their fathers. Joshua 21:44

Beth Moore

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#9. Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God.

John Hagee

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#10. If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

Leo Tolstoy

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#11. You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.

David Denby

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#12. But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then - all the combinations made - they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

Leo Tolstoy

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#13. My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons ...

Leo Tolstoy

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#14. [R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

Edward Abbey

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#15. I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Leo Tolstoy

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#16. I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

Leo Tolstoy

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#17. Our profession is dreadful, writing corrupts the soul.

Leo Tolstoy

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#18. The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Leo Tolstoy

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#19. One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; you may as well throw it away and begin afresh.

Leo Tolstoy

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#20. All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Leo Tolstoy

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#21. If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

Isaac Babel

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#22. The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Leo Tolstoy

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#23. It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Leo Tolstoy

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#24. Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

Ronald Reagan

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#25. 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

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#26. 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.

Karl Marlantes

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#27. For Tolstoy ... anything that human beings do has its glory ... I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

Mark Van Doren

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#28. Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Leo Tolstoy

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#29. First the pork chops, then morality

Bertolt Brecht

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#30. Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

Anthony Marra

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#31. One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

Leo Tolstoy

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#32. I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the story is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always done that and gifted me beautiful things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#33. OMG, I am a married woman!

Brooke Burns

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#34. One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.

Philip Yancey

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#35. I've never gone on a date ... If I've ever had a man in my life, it's because I know him well, and he really means something to me.

Blake Lively

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