The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I like reading. . . French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!
If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable. " It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.
I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare. . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
