Books Quote by Christina Westover

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle, the accouchement,…

— Susan Sontag

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

— Roy Blount, Jr

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at…

— Anonymous

“Dostoyevsky says, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” (The Brothers Karamazov).”

— Peter Kreeft

In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

“When you’re surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held…

— John Fante

“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of the contemporary…

— Valerian Maykov

“[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