Books Quote by Sue Townsend

Russian literature saved my soul. When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no…

— Irina Ratushinskaya

The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that…

— Elif Batuman

“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 just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment…

— Gordon T. Smith

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

— Irina Shayk

I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.

— Keith Gessen

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way…

— Andrea Bocelli

“[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

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So…

— Tadashi Shoji

I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers…

— Charlie Trotter

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William…

— Harlan Coben

“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky