Quote by David Foster Wallace

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

— Ian Colquhoun

“It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Christina Westover

“You had two prerequisites.” Regin plopped down on a snowbank. “And I do believe I have Russian ex-mil contacts, and I speak the language-“…

— Kresley Cole

“The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she…

— Jo Baker

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

— Michael Finkel

“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting…

— Haruki Murakami

“We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party...Art...is less like a cocktail party thank…

— John Gardner

“Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches; look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!”

— John Tagliabue

“Stupor, insanity, and curling up with a good book.” Bright finished his coffee and slipped out of bed. “And I was wondering last night…

— Lita Burke