Notes from the underground Quote by Michael Finkel

“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ian Colquhoun

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

— Christina Westover

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

— Irina Shayk

“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

“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

“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

“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held…

— John Fante

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

— John Tagliabue