Chekhov Quote by Anton Chekhov

There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come…

— Chad Harbach

“He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.”

— Lev Shestov

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

— Salman Rushdie

“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and in the…

— Anton Chekhov

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play…

— Alex Kingston

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

— Marilyn Monroe

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a…

— Raymond Carver

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

— Eudora Welty

When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and…

— Edward Albee