About Quote by Jeffrey Bell

“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but…

— Haruki Murakami

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

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the…

— Karin Slaughter

“[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

“Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and…

— John Flanagan

A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not…

— William Monahan

It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read The Idiot?…

— Josh Hartnett

“He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread: not to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

— Karin Slaughter

“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to…

— Christopher Meloni

“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