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Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.

Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.