Quotes about Tolstoy

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

Tolstoy was wrong. Kings are not the slaves of history. History is the slave of kings.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

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.