John Quote by Michelle Zauner

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'm sort of nerdy, I liked Shakespeare and Chekhov and the classics.

— Martha MacCallum

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

— Chad Harbach

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

— Al Pacino

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom

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

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

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'…

— Marisha Pessl

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

— Tobias Wolff

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every…

— Justin Theroux

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice…

— Hillary Clinton

We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love with the…

— Steven Rinella