Impossible Quote by Lev Shestov

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

— Lev Shestov

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

— Henry Miller

“All of Dostoevsky’s heroes question themselves as to the meaning of life. In this they are modern: they do not fear ridicule. What distinguishes…

— Albert Camus

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“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

“[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

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

— Ian Colquhoun

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

— John Tagliabue

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

— Christina Westover