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. Votes: 1
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. Votes: 1
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too. Votes: 1
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. Votes: 1
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. Votes: 1
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Votes: 1
I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it. Votes: 0
Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace. Votes: 0
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. Votes: 4 Mike Tyson
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Votes: 11 Albert Einstein