Dostoyevsky Quotes - Page 2

• Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

  Larry McMurtry

  Art, Pain, Genius

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Reading, Thinking, Way

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• It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.

  James A. Baldwin

  School, Years, Desire

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• I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Reading, Virginia, Gogol

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

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Written, Ifs

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• 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.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind, Stories, Sticks

  "Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" by Sidney Fields. New York Mirror, December 9, 1963.

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• The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.

  William Lane Craig

  Said, There Is No God, All Things

  William Lane Craig (2015). “On Guard for Students: A Thinker's Guide to the Christian Faith”, p.24, David C Cook

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• All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

  Jean Rhys

  Writing, Lakes, Rivers

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• Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.

  Jenna Jameson

  Sex, Eye, Trying

  "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale". Book by Jenna Jameson, 2004.

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• 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.

  Francoise Sagan

  Thinking, Limitation

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• I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

  Danzy Senna

  Growing Up, Romance, Hook

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature films, and Lev Tolstoy and Fedor Dostoyevsky would write television series because there are some stories you just can't tell in two hours.

  Scott Glenn

  Writing, Film, Hours

  Source: collider.com

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• In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

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• Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.

  Colin Wilson

  Two, Trying, Typical

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• I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

  Jewel

  Mind, Body, Taught

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• The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, Creating, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Lynne Tillman

  Jobs, Character, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.

  Vera Nazarian

  Greek, Sand, Mark

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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