Books Quote by Anton Chekhov

“Ivan had never thought of his nightmares as being insufficiently imaginative, before tonight. Dark, wet, constricted, underground, check. How had he left out biohazards?…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“At seven o’clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow. ‘Away with the past. I’ve done with the old world for…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev…

— Carolyn Cooke

“He usually shrank from extreme measures. Mirkovitch’s bloodthirsty speeches grated upon his nerves, and having spent a miracle of ingenuity in combining some deadly…

— Emmuska Orczy

“Where is Ivan?”

— John Scalzi

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami

“Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his calm, impartial…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by…

— Adam Hochschild

In my time,” he said, “they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you?” Causing…

— Nalini Singh

“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”

— Manager Lee Vyborny

“A man like Dmitry was never irate. His coldness was only reflected in the manner in which he destroyed.”

— Latrivia S. Nelson

Dmitri was in my arms.

— Richelle Mead