Books Quote by Umberto Eco

“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but…

— Haruki Murakami

“People's character will be revealed in difficult situations, whether they are a loser or a winner.”

— Ardianto sony

“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

Losers are those whose words are bigger than actions. Winners are those whose actions are bigger than words.

— Anonymous

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

— Christina Westover

“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.”

— Vann Chow

“Sometimes the winner are the loser and the loser are the winner”

— Michelangelo Saez

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

— Svetlana Alexievich

“The one struggling against the odds and getting defeated is a Loser. And this Loser with persistent determination turns a Winner one day…”

— Saurabh Dudeja

“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

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!'…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.

— John Banville