“He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours,… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“According to Chekhov,” Tamaru said, rising from his chair, “once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In a short story by Chekhov or a novel by Balzac he found mysteries which, so far as he was aware, did… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I wasnt a Star Trek fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason,… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My own journey as a writer has been the discovery of different theatrical voices. Chekhov was a revelation. Tennessee Williams was another… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
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