Chekhov Quote by Gary Shteyngart

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

— Tobias Wolff

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

— Vera Farmiga

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

— Uta Hagen

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 really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy…

— Rainn Wilson

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me…

— Neil Simon

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

— Al Pacino

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

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

— Eudora Welty

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

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I…

— Akira Kurosawa

Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the…

— Cynthia Ozick