Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Morning, Inspiration, Writing

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.351, e-artnow

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Journey, Men

• Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Law, Easy

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.428, Vintage

• 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

  Writing, Pieces, Flesh

• Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Drama, Writing, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Philosophical, Writing, Practice

• 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

  Writing, Order, Routine

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries”

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Stories, Sides

• A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Work, Writing, Soul

• How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, Suicidal

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Rewriting, I Can

• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Witty, Powerful, Stupid

• 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

  Writing, Play, People

• 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

  Lying, Writing, Negative

• Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, People

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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