Dostoevsky

He frequently cites Dostoevsky as one of his favorite authors.

He also wrote about Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Vysotsky.

Perhaps artistic expression could serve as a catalyst for awareness as suggested by the contemplation of staging Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” at the local Steel River Playhouse.

Fyodor Dostoevsky saw the behavior of Russia's useless liberal class, which he satirized and excoriated at the end of the 19th century, as presaging a period of blood and terror.

I admired the drunkenness of the prose, the digressions and exaltation, the way Dostoevsky wrote as if each page would be his last.

Because I know that when I would go to a different church or have a visiting preacher that would say something — like, quote Dostoevsky or something — I’d be like, “Oh my God, this is so amazing,” because it would be something different.

In some ways St. Petersburg, still the epicenter of Russia’s two-headedness (its double-identity as European and Asian), remains permanently marked by the narrative imposed by Dostoevsky’s novel 150 years ago.

My favourite literary hero is Dostoevsky himself.

The Flying Karamazov Brothers, those clowning hoisters with stage names swiped from a Dostoevsky novel, began defying gravity and making funny in various configurations in the streets of Santa Cruz, California, in the early 1970s.

Fyodor Dostoevsky warned that without God, all bad things are possible.

Personal relations for Dostoevsky had always been dramatic.

Remembering the character of Sonya in Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novel Crime and Punishment (1866), she mused: "She had become a prostitute in order to support her little brothers and sisters.

The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (himself a problem gambler) portrays in his novella The Gambler the psychological implications of gambling and how gambling can affect gamblers.