“Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was the devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!” he repeated with… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image