Books Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The Brothers Karamazov is a joyful book.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“we are all privately agreed that it is better in books”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The servants used to say, 'he read himself silly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“That's good,' she said, 'you go on like that, reading books. I'll make you a list myself of the books you ought…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I decided to give him books. I knew that he had long wanted to possess a complete set of Pushkin’s works, in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“it's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Go and tell," I whispered to him. There was little voice left in me, but I whispered it firmly. Then I took…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky