Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct. — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
“If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint on the broken glass.” Anton Chekhov” — Richard S. Hartmetz Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives,… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that the original… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100… — Tom Stoppard 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 don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan 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
I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon. You come from a happy family; you want to… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
“To define his tendency in a word, I would say that Chekhov was the poet of hopelessness. Stubbornly, sadly, monotonously, during all… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
“After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship… — William L. Stull Copy Share Image
I'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“Any idiot can face a crisis, it is day to day living that wears you out. —Anton Chekhov” — Anonymous 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
Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary. — John Cameron Mitchell 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
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