“Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you”
James A. Michener
“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“As for Tolstoy, ... I disagree with you altogether. Tolstoy is a magnificent writer. He is never dull, never stupid, never tired, never pedantic, never theatrical!”
James Joyce
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
“I don't mind being compared to Tolstoy literarily, but when it comes to Fun Stats it's a little humiliating.”
Calvin Trillin
