Leo Tolstoy Quotes about Writing

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

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

Philosophical, Writing, Practice

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

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

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

Leo Tolstoy

Writing, Rewriting, I Can

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

Leo Tolstoy Quotes about Writing

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