Books Quote by Eva Ibbotson

“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and…

— Ernest Hemingway

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak…

— Vincent Kartheiser

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on. But damned…

— Lindqvist John Ajvide

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

— Ian Colquhoun

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

— Roy Hodgson

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

— Irina Shayk

“Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— John Tagliabue

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 nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true of whether…

— Terry Eagleton