Beat generation Quote by Allen Ginsberg

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.

— Keith Gessen

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

— John Banville

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

— Roy Hodgson

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

— Irina Shayk

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers…

— Charlie Trotter