Dostoyevsky Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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'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

“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

“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

Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John…

— David Foster Wallace

“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

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without…

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Irina Shayk

“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

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

— Dennis Potter

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

— Christina Westover