Dostoevskyswife - Stars, Hide Your Fires.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Edward Sackville-West written c. September 1926

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.”

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his novels … are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were helpless and looked to him for comfort, his shrinking from those whom he ought to love… . There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters, from the one who feels as a man ought to feel, I try to live my life.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky to his family and friends

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

It's ridiculous how invested I am in this book after what's basically five chapters of exposition. How does Dostoevsky write like this. The ideas and characters introduced are just so interesting that I don't even care that these people haven't even talked yet. I am RIVETED

starting to think the amount of sleep you get has an impact on how much energy you have the next day. i’ll investigate more and get back to you