Chekhov Quote by Chad Harbach

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

— Tom Stoppard

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

— Al Pacino

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

— George Saunders

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my…

— Gene Wilder

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any…

— George Saunders

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

— Tobias Wolff

I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of whom I…

— Michelle Zauner

Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert…

— Stephen Karam

Do you really think that Chekhov is Chekhov because he wrote about social phenomena, readjustments of a new industrial middle class, kulaks and rising…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Chekhov, when it's done well and you're ready for it, can actually be quite funny.

— Vera Farmiga

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

— Edward Albee

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

— Roy Hodgson