Dreams Quote by Glenn Meade

“Reading Chekhov, I felt not happy, exactly, but as close to happiness as I knew I was likely to come. And it occurred to…

— Francine Prose

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

— Salman Rushdie

“It should, as Chekhov said, prepare us for tenderness. And in this regard it starts, I think, with intention… Our intention is to crack…

— George Saunders

“And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a…

— Lorin Stein

“I told myself to remember the snow and to remember my pure, strong happiness at simply being alive to see it. That thought has…

— Siri Hustvedt

Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and…

— Vasily Grossman

“The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the earth and sky together into one swaying…

— Vasily Grossman

“-but deep down he knew that change was only the interval of death between two forms of life, destruction necessary to make room for…

— John Galsworthy

“Well, since you're not going to do anything with me—can you at least read me a story? I'd settle for that. I wanted him…

— André Aciman

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