Book Quote by Graham Greene

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell,…

— David Foster Wallace

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are…

— Wallace Stegner

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a…

— Sam Mendes

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

“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.”

— Martin Sandforth

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

“If this were a novel, he might simply be a poorly written character. But there are no poorly written people. Only ones you don't…

— Jane Pek

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti