I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write

“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The novelist also…

— George L. Kline

“He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread: not to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held…

— John Fante

“A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.”

— Martin Jay

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It…

— Sue Townsend

Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should…

— John Carroll

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled…

— Serge Schmemann

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

— Georg Brandes

“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell,…

— David Foster Wallace

“Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true of whether…

— Terry Eagleton

“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming…

— Joseph Frank

The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled…

— Simon Critchley