Dostoyevsky Quotes

• If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Ifs
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Tchaikovsky

• Stop it, who cares about this Dostoyevsky, who gives a damn about the Karamazovs.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Stop
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Karamazov

• The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Dostoyevsky
  • 19th-Century

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

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Wonder

• If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Written
  • Existed
  • Hemingway

• Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Summer
  • Persons
  • Alcoholism

• The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  

  William P. Young
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Healed

• 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: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Truth
  • Greek
  • Century

• Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Poverty
  • Dostoyevsky
  • Tolstoy

• I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Journey
  • Creative