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

— Ian Colquhoun

“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.”

— Henry Miller

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Irina Shayk

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— Lev Shestov

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

— Svetlana Alexievich

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!'…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

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

— Michael Finkel