Century Quote by Norman MacCaig

“In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due less to the requirements of their…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock:…

— Wendy Lesser

“ Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international…

— Vera Nazarian

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred…

— Philip Yancey

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian…

— Pat Conroy

“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle, the accouchement,…

— Susan Sontag

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

“When you’re surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of the contemporary…

— Valerian Maykov

“[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