Crime and punishment Quote by Thomas B. Sawyer

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

— Ian Colquhoun

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— 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

“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

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Christina Westover

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Irina Shayk

“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming…

— Joseph Frank

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

“I know very well you can't help me," he said. "But I tell you, because unsuccessful and superfluous people like me find their salvation…

— Anton Chekhov

“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on. But damned…

— Lindqvist John Ajvide