Art Quote by John Gardner

“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

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

— Ian Colquhoun

“A nineteenth-century Russian novel and vodka accompanied each other perfectly. Reading a novel while one sipped vodka legitimized the drink, while the drink made…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it…

— Melika Dannese Lux

“Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under…

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— Michael Finkel

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

— John Tagliabue

“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming…

— Joseph Frank

“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

“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

“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