This evening she had twisted the words of dostoevsky to suit her mood-a fatalistic mood-to proclaim that the process of discovery was life, and that, presumably, the nature of one's goal mattered not at all.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Meanwhile, as Katharine was certain to be late, and "The Magic Flute" is nothing without a voice, he felt inclined to spend the time of waiting in writing a letter to Cassandra, exhorting her to read Pope in preference to dostoevsky, until her feeling for form was more highly developed.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Then of course I had read about the country-Tolstoi and Turgeniev, and a little dostoevsky and even Gorki and Tchekov.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole