A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing…

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

— Anonymous

“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

— Uzo Aduba

“[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

“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of the contemporary…

— Valerian Maykov

“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

“When you’re surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.”

— Christina Westover

In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Dostoyevsky says, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” (The Brothers Karamazov).”

— Peter Kreeft

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at…

— Anonymous

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

— Roy Blount, Jr

“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle, the accouchement,…

— Susan Sontag

“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich…

— Barbara Kingsolver