Books Quote by 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

“Dostoevsky does not exist for me. Virginia Woolf does not exist for me. Her essays are quite good, but her novels are not of…

— Javier Marias

“In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am…

— Thomas B. Sawyer

“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

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— Lev Shestov

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“reaching through time and speaking directly to him: Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. “I recognize myself”

— Michael Finkel

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

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

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell