About Quote by Tadashi Shoji

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

— Roy Hodgson

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

When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak…

— Vincent Kartheiser

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it…

— Claire Messud

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

— Irina Shayk

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

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have…

— Debra Dean

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

— Norman MacCaig

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 didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and…

— Helen Dunmore

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

— Ian Colquhoun