Books Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Christina Westover

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much…

— Rien Dijkstra

“I'll serve something black. Bean soup, licorice, coffee. It'll be very grim, I promise. We'll cover the mirrors. We'll listen to Piaf. We'll read…

— Stephanie Kallos

“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.”

— Henry Miller

“[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

“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the…

— Lev Shestov

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!'…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“‎" You think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over…

— Anonymous

So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche