Dostoevsky Quote by Lev Shestov

“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

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

“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

“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

“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the…

— Lev Shestov

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the “death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God.”1”

— John Ortberg Jr

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

— Christina Westover

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

— Henry Miller

“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.”

— Lev Shestov